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In the chapter entitled Glossary, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has defined "church" in both its spiritual signification and its outward expression, but the Sunday school is not directly referred to in Science and Health, nor is it mentioned in the Bible.

It is interesting and profitable for the student of Christian Science to study the accuracy with which Jesus read the thoughts of those with whom he came in contact, as many of these accounts are rich in lessons for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. In Science and Health Mrs.

Perhaps no phase of Christian Science teaching has been more subject to misapprehension and ridicule than has that of "absent treatment," and many honest people have labored under the impression that the treatment of those who are absent from the practitioner is a sort of occult proceeding which, in some measure at least, preys upon the credulity of the ignorant and of those who in their desperation are grasping at straws. Even kindly critics have been known to say that they could understand and believe in the Christian healing of a patient in direct contact with the practitioner, but that the idea of effectual absent treatment imposed too great a tax upon their faith.

Truth , eternally existent and ever drawing nearer and nearer to awakened sense, today announces through Christian Science the great premise that God and His manifestation are all; that God is Mind, and that this Mind is absolute good. The journey from sense to Soul, upon which the students of Christian Science have entered, is simply the mental journey from the major premise of this Science to its ultimate conclusion.

The word intellect is defined in part by the dictionary as "that faculty of the human soul or mind which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses. " In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Paul wrote, "Now is the accepted time," and the following lines from the pen of a little known poet of the present day are significant of the awakening of thought to a better concept of opportunity:— They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Heretofore the poetical literature of opportunity has been but the reflection of a very limited view of the subject.

In its general acceptation the cross is regarded as an instrument of punishment, and metaphorically is used to convey the idea of the punishment itself and the pain which it inflicts. The sign of the cross, however, even among many ancient nations, was invariably emblematic of immortality.

Man is a divine idea, an individualized conception and product of the activity of the infinite and divine Mind. This is, however, the spiritual and immortal man, not the mortal and finite concept of man expressed in a physical form, which presents a seeming life, intelligence, and action to the physical senses.

After Paul has classified the "diversities of gifts" which come from the one Spirit, he summarizes their excellence as follows: "And now abideth faith, hope, love" (Rev. Ver.

As the truth is unfolded to the loyal Christian Scientist, and he thereby grows in spiritual understanding, he becomes increasingly conscious of his responsibility. He asks himself what this new life means to him and what it stands for to his neighbor; he welcomes the thought that he has come to recognize his power and his influence.