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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.

What is a man of faith? Mrs. Eddy shows us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

In a recent book the descriptive phrase "an arm-chair Christian" is used; and it may well be applied to some Christian Scientists who have long been resting, resting in the deep comfort of our Leader's demonstration, and, with all her blessed books telling of Truth and Love in a little rack close beside them, have—to turn about an old quotation—dreamed noble things, not done them, all day long. But how our Leader stresses the demand of Science for demonstration! "Be active," is her rallying cry.