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A KNOWLEDGE of the teaching of Christian Science tremendously increases the incentive for overcoming wrong conditions, for it shows that instead of belonging to the universe as it exists in creative Mind, materiality is a transient phenomenon, a fictitious aspect which creation takes on when regarded from a standpoint which is out of unison with that of divine Mind. But, it will be asked, how is it possible to tell what the standpoint of divine Mind is? This is, indeed, out of the question so far as the determinations of material sense, "the carnal mind," or "mortal mind," as Mrs.

EVERY Old Testament narrative has its fruitful lessons. Take that of the tower of Babel.

THE name by which our religion is known, Christian Science, has been the subject of some unfavorable and unjust criticism on the part of people of other religious denominations. This unfavorable view of the name comes from various sources and is the result of various causes.

A PRIMARY teacher once said: "Whatever else children get in my schoolroom, happiness they must have. It is the divine right of a child to be happy.

DURING the years within the memory of those now living, there have been many persons who knew to a certainty, or thought they did, that there are material laws which not only govern matter, but men as well. They had no doubts; in consequence, they entertained a pitying contempt for those who believed contrariwise.

THE conception of Christianity which Mrs. Eddy gave to humanity, through the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," manifested not merely the vastest scope, but contained the most practical application of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth that the world has ever known.

Throughout her writings we find Mrs. Eddy ever striving to lift thought from a material sense of the universe to the spiritual, and in Science and Health ( p.

The Sermon on the Mount as recorded in the book of Matthew, beginning with the third verse of the fifth chapter and ending with the twenty-seventh verse of the seventh chapter, is not a mere collection of unrelated sayings of Jesus, as careless readers may suppose, but studied in the light of Christian Science it is seen to be a masterpiece of logical statement, which in clearness of expression, coherence of thought, and grandeur of conception is unsurpassed in literature. In Science and Health ( p.

Everything having entity or reality owes its existence to the relation between cause and effect. These are inseparable, for one is dependent on the other, and there can be no effect without a cause.

In Science and Health ( p. 495 ) Mrs.