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In the fourth chapters of Luke and Matthew it is recorded that "the devil, taking him [Jesus] up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world. " It is further recorded that the devil tempted Jesus, saying: "All this power will I give thee.

At one time home to the writer was a beautiful spot near a certain mountain, which continually promised a glimpse of the far-away and a vision of magnificence to those who would climb to its peak. How often she recalls the mental struggles at the foot of that mountain on hot summer afternoons! It was known that the hotter the day the more brilliant would be the sunset picture; that from the summit miles of mountainous country might be seen, valleys filled with delicately colored gauzelike evening mist, and distant peaks regal in robes of purple; that the path through the ocean out to the sun would be one of gold, bordered with brilliant colors and canopied with rainbow-tinted clouds.

The chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, occupies only seventeen pages; but it offers to the thinker a new and helpful concept of prayer, and furnishes an additional response to humanity's cry, made centuries ago by the disciples of the Master, "Lord, teach us to pray. " Rarely, if ever, in modern literature has so much been said in so few words as in this chapter.

On page 93 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The best spiritual type of Christly method for uplifting human thought and imparting divine Truth, is stationary power, stillness, and strength.

Every conscientious student of Christian Science engaged in valiant warfare against the flesh at times is baffled, even to the verge of discouragement, by the difficulty of controlling his thinking. It is comparatively easy to curb imaginations, since they are admittedly within one's power to restrain; but it seems to be more difficult to refrain from arrogance, assertiveness, and other manifestations of belief in and desire for personal supremacy.

In order to progress in God's way, it is necessary that the scales of materiality fall from human eyes and that they be lifted to the great fact that the discernment of Spirit is the great and necessary attainment. When we gain that viewpoint, we are on the right way.

On several recorded occasions Jesus gave verbal expression to what he knew the kingdom of heaven to be like. The illustrations he used were given with the assurance of positive knowledge.

The great majority of the members of The Mother Church throughout the field earnestly desire to follow Mrs. Eddy's provisions for the continued progress of Christian Science.

Mankind has for ages been admonished by proverb and precept of the importance of loving one's neighbor. This admonition has been variously phrased; but it was through Moses that God gave it first to the children of Israel as a law, in the words, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Christian Science discloses a wealth of practical meaning in the word "obedience," teaching the student to be obedient in all things. Obedience is defined as "the act or fact of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control; words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.