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There should be found no more responsible body of men and women in the world today than Christian Scientists, members of The Mother Church. An individual's responsibility may be regarded as his responsibility to God's demands.

The author points out the need for exchanging troubled thoughts for divine concepts.

" Mind is God," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 469 ); and she adds, "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite.

Obadiah [is] the author of the fourth book of the Minor Prophets according to the arrangement in the Jewish canon, and the shortest book of the Old Testament. Concerning Obadiah nothing is known; it may even be that the name is a mere symbol, chosen on account of its meaning—"servant of Yahwe.

Obadiah means "Servant of God," and it is not an uncommon name in the Old Testament, though, as this list shows, it is, with the exception of Ahab's steward, a name which belongs to the later literature. But this is all we know about the author of the book.

" Among the earliest of the New England settlers, the Bakers and Ambroses were pioneer families of marked distinction, as the almost forgotten local histories of Massachusetts and New Hampshire attest in many ways" (The Ancestry of Mary Baker Eddy, by William Montgomery Clemens, Editor of Genealogy Magazine ). Mrs.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy appears this profound statement ( pp. 109, 110 ): "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual.

There may be found a remarkable, an arresting, statement on page 442 of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads as follows: "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. " There may be some who do not see the importance of this behest, although, clothed in forceful language, it is to be looked upon as a terse and urgent command from a great Leader to her followers.

Membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and with one of its many branch churches located throughout the world, is a natural and desirable unfoldment in the progress of the student of Christian Science. However, by whatever road one may approach an active consideration of this momentous step, seeming difficulties in the way may induce arguments which would tempt one to delay temporarily, if not to postpone indefinitely, the achievement of the desired goal.

On page 111 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science.