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It's thrilling to think of the possibility that people today can heal as Christ Jesus taught. His own words assure, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.

The sign on the highway said, "For Atonement, Exit Here. " Ahhh.

The foundation of heredity is the conception that man is physical—that matter forms, shapes, and characterizes man. But this time-honored, solid conviction about the nature of man can yield progressively to a more spiritual perception of ourselves, a perception that brings healing.

Confronted as we are today by tremendous concern about deadly microorganisms and viruses and the formidable array of illnesses and epidemics attributed to them, we might ask where we can turn for help in truly exterminating such pestilential elements. Can mankind ever be free from them? Christian Science, with its roots in the Bible, gives us an answer.

Christian Science is based on the word and works of Christ Jesus and accepts the Bible's position that death is an enemy to be defeated. Christian Science also teaches that God is the only Life, that He is wholly good, and that Life is therefore eternal, as Jesus proved and taught.

Like most people brought up in an evangelical home I did not at first know that there was any other way of thinking of the Atonement except in terms of substitution, in terms of God laying on Jesus the punishment that should have been laid on me.

A little child reaches up, intuitively, for his parent's hand as they cross the busy street together. He feels safe and secure, without a doubt or fear.

Discrediting material appearances, Christ Jesus saw others the way God created them: as the offspring of one infinite, incorporeal Spirit. The Master expressed God's perfect vision of man, who was made "very good," according to the first chapter of the Bible.

Mary Baker Eddy has characterized her Church as "the mouthpiece of Christian Science. " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany , p.

Thanks to Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of the unchanging spiritual laws underlying the teachings and healing works of Christ Jesus, in some families today four and five generations have been living witnesses to the reliability and effectiveness of the operation of God's healing law in their lives. Although at times in her career Mrs.