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In Miscellaneous Writings Mrs. Eddy describes her Church: "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science.

In a radio talk-back session that I listened to recently, there seemed to be conflicting views as to what all people's being created equal actually implied. A young man kept asserting to the panel that he had been born into trouble, was of a minority group, and that the concept of equality was ineffective.

We don't have to take a look at a newspaper to know that the world has need of healing. We need only glance at our own backyards and main streets.

Many of us have had to retract a "never. " Statements such as "My children would never act like that" or "I'll never forgive her" can fall rather rapidly.

Christian Science teaches that there is one Mind, infinite good, and that there is no power apart from this Mind. It also teaches that man, whether spoken of individually or collectively, is the reflection of this Mind.

Evil is not an entity. Mrs.

Christian Science makes clear that the student of this Science is in the business of demonstrating—proving—the power and reality of God through prayer and spiritual regeneration. And it teaches that his goal isn't to live "happily ever after" in matter.

In his brief, useful book Can We Trust the Old Testament? Bible scholar William Neil writes, "The first thing .

"When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. " Luke 9:51.

The healing office of Christ is eloquently stated in Luke 4 (which echoes Isa. 61:1,2) : "[The Lord] hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.