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Christian Science, by multiplied proof and demonstration, is to-day showing to all the prime importance of the familiar saying, "What thou seest, that thou beest. " This Science of man reveals the fact that if one sees from the standpoint of a matter consciousness, he will have lost sight of the one and only cause, Spirit.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. " In the world of sense, light is accounted a concomitant of material processes by which physical objects and their relationships are perceived.

In these days of unusual revolutions of thought, not a few, catching glimpses of the government of God as revealed in Christian Science, may speculate as to how this supreme rule of divine Principle is to affect the future of human government. Some, glancing backward over history with slight knowledge of the subject, may hope that within what has been called theocracy will be found the final order whereby harmony is to be maintained on earth; but the present needs of humanity for world-wide law and order do not encourage thinkers to build much on visions, the perversions of which would only tend to upset the best ways and means of government now being developed through democracy.

Although the psalmist clothed his longing in the poetic imagery of the Orient, he nevertheless expressed a common human emotion when he exclaimed, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. " There are earlier and brighter moods of the human mind, to be sure, that would ask for nothing better than to be borne on "the wings of the wind" into fields of fresh adventure; but the elements of change and decay in human belief, cause all human experience eventually to end in a sense of something wanting.

From time immemorial men have been known by their mental traits. One king is known as "the lion-hearted," another as "the wise.

There are many ready to agree with the poet who says:— To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; various because in nature there is a wondrous symbolism of the countless ideas held in the all-inclusive Mind. Until awakened, however, to the unseen realities which the visible things symbolize and portray, how little we heed their deeper meanings and messages; yet close about us, all the time, God's voice is speaking to the listening ear.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 210 ) Mrs.

In commenting upon Job's words, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee," Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

To the earnest student of Christian Science the word perfection comes to have a deeper, truer meaning when he learns its rightful use as a scientific term, applicable only to that which is real and eternal. This is made clear in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," especially on page 353 where Mrs.

" The whole armour of God," spoken of by Paul, may be defined as the protective, spiritual consciousness of the presence of God, manifested in goodness, health, holiness, harmony, beauty, and bounty; the understanding that inexhaustible Life is the center and circumference of all existence; that man and the universe are the reflection or intelligent idea of all that God is; that Truth governs all creation with absolute and harmonious power and might; that divine Love fills the world with glory and gladness, holding within its own unchanging loveliness everything that really exists. The armor of God may also be characterized as the conviction that evil of every name and nature did not have origin in the Principle of all being; therefore it never had intelligence, power, nor might.