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The Glossary to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is an indispensable aid to students of Christian Science. Through acquaintance with the definitions therein given, one begins to appreciate Mrs.

Among the definitions of church, given in Webster's dictionary, are the following: "A building set apart for public Christian worship. A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

Christian Science teaches that the claims of the human so-called mind are to be healed. It teaches that these claims never really exist.

When the Roman Emperor Nero used the weapon of intolerance to persecute the Christians that were worshiping one God, he used an instrument that had been fashioned in the furnace of ignorance and indolence. Since ignorance always fears, and indolence is love of ease, his refusal to tolerate anything that opposed his mode of belief is proof that he feared the enlightenment which would necessarily destroy the thing that to him meant life, pleasure in matter.

Modern Science and modern theology have both involved themselves in a very serious dilemma; and as the whole structure of modern civilization is based mainly on what is laid down by its chief thinkers, modern civilization is involved in that very same dilemma. The statements of physical science and of philosophy based upon those statements lead to one inevitable conclusion that the material senses cognize all phenomena out of focus and in reverse.

It is sometimes said, and often by one who seems really desirous of learning more about Christian Science, that he cannot understand the textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Not until Mary Baker Eddy gave us her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" could the world understand the statement in the fourteenth verse of the third chapter of Exodus: "And God said unto Moses, I am that I am. " Indeed, the world had looked upon that declaration as being mysterious, and as only another example of the exclusiveness of the "unknown God.

When defining the meaning of words from even the most reliable dictionaries it is well for the student of Christian Science to remember what Mrs. Eddy has so truly said in Science and Health, on page 338.

The petition, "Give us this day our daily bread" is breathed fervently the world over by countless thousands who perhaps unconsciously give material meaning only to the uttered words. The task of the Christian Scientist is to realize the spiritual or real meaning of the word "bread.

Harmony is the omnipresent idea of Mind. It is inseparable from the Principle which governs it.