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"Experience is victor, never the vanquished," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, "and out of defeat comes the secret of victory. " Miscellaneous Writings, p.

In a southern town, where only a few Christian Scientists lived, a Christian Science practitioner and her husband came to settle. With everyone pulling together, the Christian Science Society, organized on and off for sixty years, soon became a Church of Christ, Scientist, and even moved to a bright new edifice.

Probably the most characteristic, and in many ways the most interesting, production of the wise men or sages of Israel is the book of Job. The Interpreter's Bible cites the poet Tennyson's description of it as "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times.

Christian Science reveals the spiritual laws governing all relationships, the laws which assure that all ideas throughout God's wondrous universe relate to each other in order and harmony. Since in the realm of contemporary human concepts there seem to be many instances of discordant and dislocated relationships, mental and physical, it is a blessing to realize that the spiritual forces that hold the universe and its ideas in joyous harmony are available for mankind to grasp and utilize.

Suppose a conductor has selected a new work for his orchestra to perform. He will have in mind his ideal for the performance of it, but if we were to listen in on rehearsals, we would not immediately hear that ideal come to life.

Are we truly aware of our innocence?

Christ Jesus' followers who appreciated his teaching could not restrain themselves; they rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice for the great works they had seen the Master do, so much so that the Pharisees complained that they should be rebuked. We read in Luke that Jesus answered, "I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

Men wage warfare against pests more extensively today than ever before in human history. Yet in broad areas of the world unchecked infestations frequently threaten famine, disease, and loss of life.

In working out problems in Christian Science, controlling one's tongue has a most important place. When some discordant situation crops up, one may at first be inclined to believe it.

Much purification and regeneration must go on in one's thinking before one yields to the divine afflatus of spiritual healing. We must look deep into the spiritual truths of being as taught in Christian Science instead of accepting the false evidences of the material senses, which contradict these truths.