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The light of the Christ shines today through Christian Science as it shone of old through the life and works of Jesus. And as of old, the light of Christ, uncovering error that evil may be destroyed by Truth, is producing great chemicalization in human thought.

As God's spiritual idea, man is forever one with Him—one with all good, with omnipotence itself. From this oneness derives our power over every debilitating suggestion of error.

Have you ever been on a ways and means committee when everybody agreed about the objective but everybody had his own way of achieving it; and everybody was quite sure that his particular way was best? There is a way that supersedes all the different approaches of personal sense— a way that can satisfy everybody. It isn't my way or your way or any humanly willful way.

Being comes before doing. Without first being, no one could do anything because there would be no one to do the doing.

Do you enjoy disagreements, quarreling, strained relationships? Surely few of us do. Then why do they occur? Don't these discordant events occur because we fail to recognize and demonstrate spiritual man and spiritual substance, all under the control of a just and loving God? Shouldn't this divine control heal conflict with others? It can, and the resulting harmony is indispensable to proving that each one of us is in reality God's perfect, spiritual idea.

God, divine Mind, controls the universe; and man, God's spiritual idea— the true identity of you and me—reflects His equipoise. God, the one infinite Mind, is actually our Mind.

"Your dual and impersonal pastor, the Bible, and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' is with you; and the Life these give, the Truth they illustrate, the Love they demonstrate, is the great Shepherd that feedeth my flock, and leadeth them 'beside the still waters'" ( Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 322 ).

I could answer that by asking, "Why not?" Or, to reverse the popular saying, "Why ride when you can walk?" But I suspect that these answers would at best avoid or evade the meat of the matter. We may be sure that there are reasons why Mrs.

As mortal history ticks off passing years, it is good occasionally to evaluate where we stand on the question of age. Many of us are familiar with Mrs.

The more one studies Christian Science, the more he realizes the infinite scope and depth of the revelation that came to Mrs. Eddy.