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Just as the corner stone of any building is that stone which lying at the corner of two walls unites those walls at the foundation, so the Christ, as understood in Christian Science, shows man to be united to his fellow man on the basis of one Principle, God. Just as to build a superstructure without regard to the corner stone or foundation is to sacrifice the strength and beauty of an edifice, so, according to Christian Science, to live without regard to this fundamental spiritual law is to sacrifice the harmony and peace of existence.

An understanding faith is a listening quality of thought. It is that through which angels whisper.

The paramount test of true Scriptural interpretation is the conscious ability to heal the sick. If one has no practical understanding of the healing power of divine Love, however learned or sincere he may be, he must fail to interpret the Scriptures in their Christianly scientific meaning.

Christian Scientists all feel that they owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for giving them their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

One of the points upon which practically the entire world agrees and to which there has been admirable adherence in these recent years of strife, is the necessity for taking a firm stand in matters of justice, regardless of the cost. Christian Scientists are grateful in their recognition of this unity of thought and purpose because they can appreciate the underlying inherent truth that prompts such a universal, firm stand.

The fact that Christian Science as a religion offered protection, solace, regeneration, and spiritual enlightenment to the soldier in camp, in the trenches, on the battle field, and in the hospital is evidenced in the testimonies of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual healing given in the Christian Science periodicals and at the Wednesday evening meetings, where grateful acknowledgment is made of the practical availability of Christian Science in its application to the needs of those who turned to it in extremity amid crises of human existence. While it is impossible at the present time to measure the full extent of good accomplished, nevertheless one can read the signs of the times in the reports by pen or voice of the cases of relief from pain, of comfort in affliction, of the healing of sin, and of the illumination of thought experienced by those who faithfully adhered to the teachings of Christian Science.

The ceaseless human activity in a material universe as visualized by Shakespeare was pictured thus:— All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. What the poet expressed in verse Mrs.

Truth comes to each of us in the way we are best able to accept it. It came to me in a strange and remarkable manner, and undoubtedly in the only way I would receive it.

" Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity," Mrs. Eddy writes on page vii of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

The Scriptural allegory in the book of Genesis explains how the concept of evil first appeared to the human mind in the form of a serpent. So subtle is the serpent that it has deluded mankind ever since the beginning of history, and so plausible is its argument that it has deceived even the wise.