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Foremost and with increasingly insistent demand on the part of the inquirer, is the question: How does Christian Science heal? To those who have devoted themselves unavailingly to material means and remedies for healing, the basis of Christian Science may appear intangible. Possibly its claims and teachings are foreign to all past experience, yet the assurance of its healing power, its offer of release from disease and sin, persuade many to ask how they can know this Science which destroys disease and evil.

In his letter to the Philippians Paul expressed the following bit of wise determination: "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. " Such Christianly scientific practice is certainly indispensable to progress.

The term appreciation is often used as a synonym for gratitude, when in reality the former spiritual quality is a correlative of the latter, and each, upon analysis, is found to be dependent upon the existence of the other for its own perfect expression. Webster defines gratitude thus: "State of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness;" and appreciation as "a valuation or estimate; accurate perception; true estimation;.

Christianity can have but one object, and that is redemption. It is redemptive both in Principle and in practice.

There is an old Spanish fable which tells of a man rich in this world's goods who, having houses and vineyards in abundance, was yet never satisfied with the weather. It was too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet; always there was cause for complaint, and his grapes were never as good as they might have been, though they were the best in the province.

True creation is spiritual reflection. In "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

In any time of testing, when the combined forces of evil beliefs are arrayed in deadly combat against the forces of good, it is the duty of each Christian Scientist to keep uppermost in thought Mrs. Eddy's emphatic statement given on page 232 of Miscellany, "The right way wins the right of way.

When Martin Luther, in 1517, nailed his theses to the church door at Wittenberg, he struck a blow for all time at the belief that in order to be healed of sin a man must have a priestly, human mediator between himself and God. All the Protestant world now knows that one may turn to God for salvation, and that God is able and willing to take away his sin.

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.