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When Mary Baker Eddy proclaimed to the world her discovery of the unreality of matter, she also revealed the all-power of spiritual activity and the utter powerlessness of so-called material action. Mankind has long accepted the belief that matter has life and reality, and that all action is the product of material energy and human will, and has, in consequence, remained enslaved by the so-called laws of material action and reaction.

" I Know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. " It was Job who uttered this strong cry of faith at a time when all the testimony of the senses seemed to be in direct opposition to the possibility that the claims of evil could be refuted.

When the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, instituted the office of Committee on Publication, she aroused the admiration even of her enemies. No one could deny its effectiveness; for the correction of printed misstatements in an orderly manner soon proved to be a wholesome deterrent to the flippancies of yellow journalism, as well as a kindly instructor to the ignorant, but perchance well-meaning commentator.

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.