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When Christ Jesus tested his disciples' confidence in the power of God to supply whatever was necessary to feed the multitude, the response emphasized the picture of insufficient supply and belittled what was on hand: "Five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?" Jesus, with his clear vision of substance as wholly spiritual, demonstrated the inexhaustible abundance of divine Love's giving. He "took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

If God is omnipotent, merciful, and just, why does He permit evil to exist? The theological term "theodicy" reflects an attempt to reconcile this paradox by vindicating God's attributes of mercy and justice, in spite of the presence of evil in the world. But Christian Science solves the dilemma by disclosing the nothingness of evil—revealing that God neither creates evil nor does He permit it to exist.

The demonstration of Christian Science includes not just the overcoming of error but the positive spiritual building necessary to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth for all. Mrs.

This is not an article on music. True, in the title I have used a musical term, the word "symphonic.

Mrs. Eddy expected a good reader to be conversational.

Healings in Christian Science are often instantaneous. When the truth of God's love for man comes to human consciousness with illuminating clarity, healing follows immediately.

Today more and more people are recognizing the power of love and what it can do for mankind. Many physicians are granting its value to patients and perhaps its power to quicken healing.

What an experience was offered to the group of people gathered in Tremont Temple, Boston, on March 16, 1885! Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had been allowed just ten minutes to address another speaker's audience in reply to his public letter condemning her doctrines. For brevity's sake she posed and answered five short questions.

Where does thought originate—who, really, does the knowing? To students of Christian Science this question is basic. They have proved times without number that a right answer, and the spiritual enlightenment it brings, enable them to demonstrate increased harmony in every department of their lives.

Are you eager for progress? Certainly there is nothing the world is more interested in, nothing it needs more. From the basis of life in matter there is no real progress; human experience shows this.