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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.

Phidias , who was born about 500 b, c. , was one of the first great sculptors, and is credited with supervising the building of the Parthenon for Pericles.

As God is Mind, true hearing consists in listening to God's thoughts. Mrs.

It stands to reason that unless the instructions which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has given are carried out according to what she has written, the movement of Christian Science might seem to be torn away from her demonstration and become derelict.

One day, visiting a cinema display, I was impressed by an interesting picture, which must have taken weeks of patient watching to complete. It portrayed the habits of a cuckoo, the bird that, in some countries, shirks the duty of parentage by laying its egg in another bird's nest.

Whatever is revealed of God is God expressed. The mode of God's expression constitutes spiritual law; and spiritual law governs God's idea or expression, man.