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The most vital thing in the world to-day is healing, as practiced by the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus. This healing is made possible to the present age through the revelation of Christian Science, given by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which is the textbook of Christian Science.

One of the most striking passages in the New Testament is that which tells of the Apostle Paul standing in the midst of Mars' Hill and speaking to the assembled Athenians as follows: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

In the sixteenth chapter of the gospel of Matthew we read these plain, significant words by Jesus: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. " This command is imperative to-day to all who are seeking the way to eternal Life; and in Christian Science we are beginning to learn how, in some measure at least, to be obedient to the Master's commands.

Many, like Jacob of yore, when ready to renounce the exile of sin, think their decision to return to the Father's house sufficient to bring them immediately into the full realization of the heaven-harmony promised in Christian Science. They find it hard, at first, to understand conditions that arise, sometimes, apparently the very opposite of right realization.

In Mrs. Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901 ( p.

The apotheosis of work stands forth in the words of Jesus, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. " Likewise Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

On a June morning in the year 1906, at the early hour of five-thirty, there were gathered before The Mother Church in Boston vast numbers of people waiting for the doors to open for the first service of the day. The streets for many blocks around seemed to be flowing with streams of people, all bent in the direction of The Mother Church,—a picture reminding one of these words by Isaiah: "It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established.

In looking back over the history of the Christian Science movement and recognizing the many blessings that have been manifested through its healing ministry, being mindful also of the fact that through its ministry the Word of God is being carried to all parts of the world, thus furthering the advent of the kingdom of heaven on earth, we feel profoundly grateful to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, whose life of self-sacrifice, consecration, and devotion to divine Principle has made all this possible. Dwelling on these facts, we become deeply impressed with the magnitude of Christian Science and its far-reaching possibilities and benefactions; and as Christian Scientists we receive new inspiration and aspiration to take our stand and shoulder our responsibilities toward the world in general, and our Cause in particular, by an ever increasing desire to live the life of truly consecrated followers of Christ.

A Study of the Bible in the light of Christian Science reveals that man's relation or true kinship to God is his sonship with God, his at-one-ment with divine Love. Throughout his ministry Christ Jesus proved that a knowledge of this relationship can be gained only through the spiritual understanding of man,—his origin and existence as a child of God, his government by the divine law of Love.

There is Scriptural authority for metaphorically depicting the illusions of mortal existence through the dream. It would seem to have come to the Apostle Paul in this way when he said in a letter to the Ephesians, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.