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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

TO survive, according to the dictionary, is to outlive, to remain alive. Then only that which is immortal and spiritual can possibly survive; for material life, so called, has no eternal quality, and nothing material has permanence or power.

DISPELLING THE ADAM—DREAM

SPIRITUAL man exists at the point of perfection. As Mrs.

TRUE LIFE

WHERE there is implanted in human consciousness a desire to know the truth of being and to live in accordance with it, the right understanding of Life is essential. Jesus declared, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

HUMILITY

MEEKNESS is strength, not weakness; humbleness is seen in the overcoming of evil, not in submission to it; humility in its true nature and significance brings ascension. In building it is well to examine each stone that goes into our structure, or we may find ourselves deceived; for it may occur that stones which appear most promising are unfit for use.

THE SANCTUARY

WHEN Moses received on mount Sinai the vision of the moral law in the Ten Commandments, there was also revealed to him the necessity of establishing a sanctuary for the worship of the God who had revealed Himself to him as the great " I AM THAT I AM. " This understanding of God had to be expressed to the people in a way which they could understand; and we read in Exodus that God said, "Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

"ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN"

AT this Christmas season our thoughts turn with special loving gratitude to the story, familiar to us from childhood, of the birth of the child Jesus. We recall each incident of that first Christmas night: the watchful shepherds tending their flocks on the lonely hills of Judea, probably thinking of and praying for the advent of the promised Messiah, when upon their startled gaze dawned the angelic vision with its glorious message of "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men;" the dimly lighted stable with its lowly manger; the young mother whose pure spiritual concept of God as the only creator had enabled her to bring forth her child, the beloved babe, who, as Mary Baker Eddy so beautifully expresses it in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

It is quite a mistake to fancy that religion belongs only to the highest, and what are called duties of life. While she rises to the highest, she also stoops to the meanest occupations.

A GLEAM OF GLORY

AT the Wednesday evening meetings in Christian Science churches, words of grateful testimony may frequently be heard from those who have been healed through reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The previous unhappiness of those who testify may have been caused by sickness, by the indulgence of a harmful habit, or by the entertaining of a wrong concept of work; but whatever the seeming cause may have been, it was but darkness resulting from a lack of right control of the mental affairs of that person's life.

"THE CENTRAL FACT OF THE BIBLE"

ON page 131 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "The central fact of the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power.

SPIRITUAL IDENTIFICATION

WHAT is spiritual identification? It is the process or act of recognizing one's true selfhood. This identification is the process whereby one relinquishes his mortal, material selfhood, to find and establish his spiritual identity as the child of God.