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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.

There's a technique of art called chiaroscuro in which an effect is created by using light and shade. Emphasis serves the reader in much the same way, giving value to a thought—calling attention to it, so it stands out from less important thoughts within the context as a whole.

How many facts are there? A hundred thousand? A million? Whatever the number, they are subordinate to the one all-encompassing fact that existence is wholly spiritual. Christian Science teaches that God, Spirit, creates the universe and man.

"I'd like to tell about an instantaneous healing I had," a testifier said one Wednesday evening in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. "Actually," the woman continued, "it took me a year to get ready for it, but when it came—it was instantaneous.

Sometimes as I walk down a busy street, I want to awaken everyone around me to the healing, transforming activity of Christian Science. Sharing a Christian Science lecture is a wonderful way to do this! Here's where all kinds of people can learn about a way of life that heals and satisfies.

Christian Science unfolds new views of man and woman and the heritage of freedom, health, and happiness available to us. As we demonstrate the rules of this Science in daily life, wonderful perceptions of God and of our individual relationship to Him open in thought.

In divine Science understanding is a quality of Soul. It is infinite, perfect, complete.

The Bible records a time when the children of Israel were told by Moses— as they prepared to go into battle with the Canaanites upon entering the Promised Land—that God said a complete victory over their enemies must include even destroying "all their pictures. " Num.