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Christian Science teaches that the real man, our true self, does not drift with the so-called stream of time but stands now on the firm shore of timeless being. In this divine Science we learn that our true being is not part of the transience of time; we live in the eternal now, without the burden of a temporal past, without the uncertainty of a temporal future, without a beginning or ending.

Though personal sense may deem it an individual honor, or a status symbol, Readership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, like many human activities that serve God, is essentially a moral and spiritual obligation. The office of Reader is not one of seclusion, but of service.

"Truth is revealed. It needs only to be practised.

On the back of a door in the farmhouse where I grew up were some pencil marks measuring the height of my sister, my brother, and myself at different ages. It was our parents' custom to check these marks from time to time and note how much we had grown.

What a thrill it is to witness the feats of space exploration! Such wonderful technological achievements as these, with their display of human intelligence, hint at the power of God, the one infinite and divine Mind of all true being. But an immeasurably greater access to this power, wherewith to heal the ills of mankind and solve world problems, is at hand in Christian Science, the revealed knowledge of Christ's Christianity.

One night as I was studying Science and Health I looked out the window and saw a new moon. I thought, "I am not tempted to believe there is only a little piece of the moon up there, just because I can see only this phase of it.

In 1895, Mary Baker Eddy took a significant step to safeguard the purity of the revelation of Christian Science. She announced: "Humbly, and, as I believe, divinely directed, I hereby ordain the Bible, and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' to be hereafter the only pastor of The Church of Christ, Scientist, throughout our land and in other lands.

Proper self-appraisal opens the door to the healing of alienation from others and awkwardness with others. Human self-knowledge is best accomplished by catching through Christian Science ever-increasing glimpses of the harmonious divine nature in ourselves and others.

Writing from a Roman prison to the Philippians about A. D.

When Christ Jesus—and following him, Mrs. Eddy—healed even extreme cases of disease or sin, their statements of truth were simple and strong.