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Lack isn't truly overcome by getting more money, education, or possessions but by relinquishing the concept of limitation. Supply isn't found in accumulating materiality but in eliminating it.

What is this unity of God and man referred to in the Bible? Christian Science answers that it is the essential oneness of God and man as cause and effect, which leaves man no option but to be all that God is expressing. This oneness is the starting point, not the goal, of students of this Science.

The difference between reading and studying with the intention of putting what one is reading into practice can be compared to new spark plugs carried in the trunk of your car and new spark plugs installed in its engine. The plugs will not do the car any good until they are put to work in the engine.

Since God is Mind, Mind is divine. And since God is infinite, there is but one Mind.

Many a Christian Scientist has thought at one time or another, "If only I could have taken class instruction from Mrs. Eddy!" Some who actually had that privilege have shared their memories of that precious time with our Leader, who was so obviously inspired by divine Mind.

In much literature, including the Bible, rivers are strong symbols of communication, protection, supply, and purification. Through the Garden of Eden, as Genesis 2 describes it, ran a stream that branched into four rivers.

"Now that was a real benediction!" said my friend. The First Reader had closed a Communion service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, with: "The God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

Early in my study of Christian Science I found myself frequently ill and on an up-and-down course of alternate buoyancy and depression. This puzzled me because I knew that a Christian Scientist should be expressing joy and well-being more consistently.

Mrs. Eddy's directive to defend ourselves each day against aggressive mental suggestion is strong and precise and calls for us to be strong and precise in fulfilling it.

Although the complete statement of Christian Science is in Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says of her writing of that work, "She has made no effort to embellish, elaborate, or treat in full detail so infinite a theme.