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It was because Mary Baker Eddy saw so clearly the need of demonstrating the sixth beatitude that she wrote in Science and Health p. 337 ) the following statement: "Christian Science demonstrates that none but the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel teaches.

Holidays , like birthdays, will continue in human experience so long as they appear actual in belief. Their relative importance will diminish in proportion to the understanding of their metaphysical significance.

The wanting and wishing of mortals are twins that go hand in hand, stirring up trouble and discontent wherever they go. The desire of immortal man is the direct opposite of the cravings of mankind, in that the immortal creation of God is complete and perfect, while mortality always lacks perfection.

One the most noticeable facts in the history of Christianity is the apparent struggle the great truth as taught by Jesus of Nazareth has always had to maintain its simplicity; or, to state the matter more correctly, the unremitting efforts the human mind has put forth, through, the centuries, to rob it of its simplicity and so to encumber it as to neutralize its effects, as far as possible, in human experience. The story of Christianity is to a large extent the story of this process, a binding and a breaking free and then a rebinding only to be followed by a still greater and a wider emancipation.

Metaphysics demands the unqualified surrender of sense testimony upon every occasion and under every circumstance because personal sense is the very acme of the belief of life in matter, of a knowledge of good and evil. The Christian metaphysician is guided by the dynamic power of Principle, the unswerving, unequivocal might of Mind which never stoops nor tarries to temporize with the human seeming.

There are few things more talked about these days than "'The Contusion of Creeds. " a fact which is no less sincerely deplored by those who are given to prayer than it is flippantly ridiculed by those who are given to destructive criticism.

To the sufferer turning as a last resort to Christian Science for help, Christian Science may mean simply another healing method to be tried. To the student of Christian Science, convinced of its truth and trying to advance in knowledge and practice, it means the revelation of divine law.

Jesus ' insistence upon the responsibility of the individual for the working out of his own salvation was very emphatically stated in his memorable words uttered in the upper chamber at the close of his last supper with his disciples. He had taught them for three years, proving and illustrating the truth he revealed by miracle and parable, and he had often emphasized the necessity for individual effort by saying, in effect: Go and do thou likewise.

The very first divergence from the absolute truth is in the more or less common acceptance of or compromise between the dual accounts of the creation of man in the first and second chapters of Genesis respectively, and the alertness of the metaphysician is needed to penetrate and expose the subtle illusion under which the world thoughtlessly labors, due to its blind submission to the supposedly binding laws arising therefrom. The two accounts differ to just this extent: that the first accounts for man as the spiritual creation in God's image, embodying the consequent completeness of the male and female qualities, the whole and consummate expression of God's being; while the second account portrays a material man formed "of the dust of the ground," lonesome and incomplete, necessitating the creation of a second or correlative, a woman, unto whom the man should cleave for his support and completion.

Christian Science is positive in its declaration that God, exhaustless power and intelligence, is all that governs and regulates the universe, including man. How encouraging it is to know that Mind adjusts all action, and since God is omnipotent, All-power, the individual is relieved of all so-called responsibility.