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On page 274 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way position in learning its Principle and rule—establishing it by demonstration.

"Unwillingness to learn all things rightly, binds Christendom with chains," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 96 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " From this it is reasonable to assume that when Christendom is willing to learn all things rightly, its chains will be broken, its freedom established.

" Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. " The generally accepted understanding of this commandment is that it prohibits the use of profanity.

In nothing is the teaching of Christian Science more practical and definite than in its differentiation between the real man, made in God's image, and the counterfeit, so-called "children of men. " "Be ye therefore perfect," said Jesus to his followers, "even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect;" for he knew that perfection alone could express the nature of the man whom God had made.

A correct perception of the nature of God is essential to salvation from the beliefs of material sense and their baneful effects on mortals. Throughout the ages, mankind has endeavored to gain a true concept of the power that governs man and the universe; and Scriptural history furnishes convincing evidence that many have succeeded, in a measure at least, in emerging from the darkness of ignorance of God into the light of the eternal truth concerning Him.

Humanity is always longing for something. Men are ever reaching out for that which they consider materially necessary to their comfort and happiness, in spite of the injunction of the Master, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on," and the assurance, "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

To "survey the wondrous cross" and be filled with gratitude and humble reverence is to receive light and joy; for in Christian Science the thought of the cross is linked with the thought of resurrection, the awakening to eternal life and spiritual power. In the seventeenth chapter of John we are told that Jesus, in the shadow of the dark hours before the crucifixion, lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

When a young man consulted Jesus about his spiritual progress, our Master counseled him to consider the demands of the moral law and the Golden Rule, and to live accordingly. On being assured that he had done so from early youth, Jesus pointed out to him his further opportunities of advancing and perfecting his understanding and demonstration of the life divine through self-sacrifice and consecrated Christian service: he should dispose of his encumbering possession and distribute to those in need, thereafter taking up the cross, associating himself with and engaging in our Master's healing ministry.

Christian Science teaches that any appearance of error— disease, discord, or poverty—is due to wrong thinking. Therefore, the place in which to correct the error is in thought.

However much a student of Christian Science may desire to remove himself from the world, and spend his entire time in the quiet pursuit of spiritual development through the study of Christian Science, he sooner or later finds this cannot be his course. When Peter, James, and John, on the mount of transfiguration, beheld the advanced revelation of the Christ, they longed to remain there in that exalted consciousness, but could not.