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MRS. EDDY writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

IF one were to ask the average individual what, to his sense, would embrace all of the elements of true success, the essence of his reply would probably be that to be healthy, to have a successful business, a happy home, harmonious relations with his fellows, freedom from fear, want, and discord, would constitute a sense of complete well-being. A consciousness of well-being—a mental state—is primarily what all are seeking, so that, when seen aright, matter becomes secondary from the start.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy makes this statement ( Science and Health, p.

THE Church of Christ, Scientist, with its fruitful branches spreading all over the civilized world, is an inspiring proof of the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. The commodious church edifices and halls which provide places of worship where the multitudes may congregate to hear the Word of God and learn more of the divine healing Principle, continue to multiply.

BRING ye all the tithes into the storehouse," says the prophet Malachi. The demand is for that which is justly due.

TO those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Pref. , p.

THERE is today a prevalent demand for standardization, which would conform everything to certain criterions. A student of Christian Science might perhaps at times become mesmerized by this world-wide tendency towards standardization.

THE study of the Bible is to a student of Christian Science an unfailing source of inspiration and profit, for he has learned to look beyond the merely literal meaning of the text and to seek the spiritual message that is conveyed throughout the sacred pages. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has drawn attention to the spiritual meaning of the Bible where she has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( Science and Health, p.

JESUS ' words and deeds .

THE writer of the epistle to the Hebrews, counseling the brethren to be diligent in seeking the full meaning of the Christian hope, following the example "of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises" of God, urges them "to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope," he says, "we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. " Those who have turned to divine Love seeking to lay hold upon the rich promises held out by Christian Science, learn that this "anchor of the soul" must be cast into the spiritual realm wherein is the presence and power of the Most High.