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Evidences are multiplying that many assailants of Christian Science and traducers of Mrs. Eddy are changing their tactics.

Each individual who has begun to turn from human illusions to see the need of working out his own salvation, has found himself with the task of determining just what this work is,—what will be required of him and how it is best and most surely to be performed. Amid its turmoil and suffering, the world has never really been stilled or satisfied by the promise that some day all this would be answered, and the way to freedom made plain.

One of the most difficult problems for the beginner in Christian Science is to understand the clear-cut distinction which its teachings bring out between a so-called material creation and the spiritual universe, including man. The two records of creation—one, of God's perfect, spiritual creation, in the first chapter of Genesis and the first, three verses of the second chapter, and the other, the record of a false or material creation, in the remainder of the second chapter of Genesis—have been there in the Book of books down through the ages, but have been misunderstood by mortals during all those years.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in "The First Church of Christ.

It is significant that our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave confidence in the truth so important a place in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " There she writes (Pref.

In the endeavor to express their understanding of God, inspired writers have employed a variety of figures explaining spiritual truths by comparison with objects and experiences which are familiar and easily understood. Like many another Scriptural metaphor, the symbol of the rock contains opposite illustrations, according to whether the spiritual or the material standpoint is exemplified.

All revelation of God good, has come to humanity in the form of spiritual law. This is the "voice of the Lord" speaking to the human heart throughout the cycles of time; hence the requirement of absolute obedience thereto.

In the Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mrs. Eddy placed the following By-law under the heading ''Daily Prayer" ( Art.

Mortal Mind's claims to activity constitute an attempted interference with the harmonious government of God's universe. As such, they are seen to be false and unreal, since omnipotence does not share its all-inclusive power with that which predicates its existence on a denial of omnipotence.

An eager group of disciples gathered about Jesus on one occasion and asked him to teach them to pray. Was it because their prayer had not always brought the desired answer? What did their prayer lack? Patiently the Master bore with these dull disciples, pointing out to them that in order to pray aright the human concept of God which presupposes Him to be a being who loves and hates, and refuses or grants the petitions of mortals according to variable will, must give place to the spiritual understanding of God as the infinitely good and loving Being who governs harmoniously every idea in His universe.