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There is a sure-fire way to prevent being fooled into believing a lie, and that is to know the truth. This is how Christian Science heals.

Have you ever thought how it must have been to be the only Christian Scientist on earth? The one who was that, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Millions may know that I am the Founder of Christian Science. I alone know what that means.

Acorns and bumblebees! Who would expect answers to the perplexing problems of the human struggle to come through such simple objects in nature? Once a Christian Scientist had a struggle with herself that was the culmination of months of heavy demands for spiritual growth. The future held only the promise of deeper demands.

The temporary blindness that causes a parent to abuse his child or a husband to batter his wife or a wife to attack her husband must be dealt with compassionately and firmly. It is self-evident that a loving God does not know violence and that we have God-derived ability to express love.

There's a vast difference between the man found in the revelation of divine Science and the human personality observed with the physical senses. Mrs.

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.