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On page 271 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Christ's Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God.

In all ages there has come to noble-hearted men and women some knowledge of the eternal harmony, lifting them above the discords of sense. They have not been limited to the membership of one religion, far less to that of any one sect.

The curse on Adam was, that in the sweat of his face he should eat bread. In this pronouncement of mortal mind has originated the age-old conviction that man works for a living, and that he has to make money in order to exist.

Under the marginal heading "The great question," on page 308 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy, in ringing tones, arouses humanity to the need of recognizing man's true status and his relationship to God.

Mrs. Eddy has written of the Rules and By-laws of The Mother Church, on page 148 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "They were not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, such as one person might impose on another.

So perfectly was Christ Jesus' thought attuned to the one Mind, his Father, that every object became a subject for a lesson, every obstacle manifest as sin disease, or death an opportunity to reveal the nature of God. With parables aglow with the wonderful teachings that became waymarks to God for those who had ears to hear, and through his healing works, a marvel to the human thought which so long had been bound by its belief in the reality of evil, he taught and demonstrated the truth.

In explaining the various steps which led up to her final discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

One of the most frequently misunderstood problems of theology is that which deals with the Holy Ghost. Denominational Christianity has for centuries attempted to explain this problem by conceiving of the Holy Ghost as a separate being, a supernatural entity or personality, which was promised by Jesus as a recompense for his departure.

" And the evening and the morning were the third day. "On page 508 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

It always has been and probably always will be a difficult matter adequately to express spiritual truths in material language; and as all the ancient writers in the Bible were more or less inspired, it is necessary for us by means of a closer walk with God to endeavor to bring ourselves into the same spiritual atmosphere, if we are to catch their meaning and understand the "mysteries of the kingdom. " In studying the works of Mary Baker Eddy one is not only filled with inexpressible gratitude for her untiring devotion to the cause of Christian Science but is much impressed with the simplicity of her language, the convincing proof of her arguments, her syntactical accuracy, and the care she has taken to select phraseology most suitable to point out the correct meaning of the various truths of the Bible.