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Some readers may be so conscious of the limits of their demonstration of Christian Science to date that they would prefer to be called students of Christian Science rather than Christian Scientists. This view reflects a healthy recognition of the great requirements involved in the practice of Christian Science, and it impels us to inquire further about what is needed to really earn the name "Christian Scientist.

Mark records a number of promises Christ Jesus gave concerning his future followers—"signs" that would "follow them that believe. " One of them is, "They shall speak with new tongues.

Our family has been greatly blessed by the study of Christian Science. It has been our sole physician since I was a child.

God is the parent Mind; man and the universe exist in Him. There is no outside to God's allness.

People are learning through Christian Science the absolute truth that man is the likeness of God, Spirit, and has no element of matter in him. The full comprehension and demonstration of this fact is the summit of spiritual understanding, a state of consciousness in which we shall know ourselves to be perfect, with no knowledge of evil, illness, or death.

Disorder of any type is the objectification of mental error, and a wise metaphysician continually cultivates his or her ability to discern accurately the error that seems to obtain in human consciousness. We might say that this ability is part of what Christ Jesus described as being "wise as serpents.

It is a tremendous thing to know that there is only one Mind, one consciousness—the divine Mind that is Love. It enables us to acknowledge with gratitude "how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Ps.

Ancient Egyptians revered the phoenix, a mythical, majestic bird sacred to the sun-god, Ra. It was fabled to exist for 500 years or more and then to be consumed in its own fire, only to rise from its very ashes in rebirth.

Along with the present resurgence of belief in many forms of the occult, one may hear the terms "religion" and "magic" used as if they were almost interchangeable. It is even sometimes suggested that both ways of looking at the world are based only on beliefs about how a material man struggles to control his material world.

When the prophet Gad advised King David to purchase Araunah's threshing floor and build there an altar to God to stay a plague, Araunah wished to make David a present of the threshing floor and of everything needed for the sacrifice. But David's thoughtful reply was that he would buy it all at a price; he would not offer unto God that which cost him nothing.