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Mankind's crying need for freedom from enslavement of every sort has never been more pressing. Accordingly, it is of primary importance to understand the liberating nature of divine Love.

Did you ever stop to think about Christ Jesus' total commitment to spiritual identification? His answer to questions posed to him revealed his conscious oneness with God. He said: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand"; "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"; "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

When most of us think of balance, we're inclined to think of the balance needed to walk a tightrope, or the balance of equal weights on a scale, or the balance of power among nations. While this sense of balance takes into account opposing forces, another kind of balance is essential to healing the sick, reforming the sinner, and establishing harmony in human experience.

One of the most profound discoveries of Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, is the unreality of evil. As the power, presence, and reality—the allness—of God, good, became more and more obvious to her, she saw that any opposite to God is an impossibility.

Success in our practice of Christian Science depends largely on our certainty that it is absolute truth. How do we gain this certainty, an assurance that's exempt from all doubt? Through the recognition that we are studying and practicing an infallible, divine Science.

Through our individual practice of Christian Science we learn the value of prayerfully considering what is really being demanded of us under every circumstance. Jesus' entire earthly experience exemplified his own words, "Not my will, but thine, be done.

Christ Jesus had fed thousands with no more than "five barley loaves, and two small fishes. " The reaction of the multitude had been to want to force him to become their king.

Christ Jesus' teachings filled people with the good news of spiritual reality— with the fact of God's goodness, power, and divine presence. He turned thought from acceptance of the evidence of the material senses to reliance on Spirit's infinite provision for man, and brought healing to people everywhere he went.

To many students of the Bible the second chapter of Genesis is enigmatic and problematical. But when studied along with the chapter of the same name in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

Every instruction and demonstration of Christ Jesus is relevant to the healing work of Christians in this present age. He prophesied of his followers, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.