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True False 1. ---- ---- Drugs, surgery, and other material techniques for healing are developed in response to human ills.
It's the realization of the presence of the substance of God, and of God as the source of all individuality; and the hand-in-hand denial of whatever seems to be in contrast to this. Looking more deeply still, the scientific healer knows that the essence of scientific treatment is divine Truth maintaining its perfection and purity everywhere.
The discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy occupies a definable period in the calendar of history. So does her founding of Christian Science.
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"Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Let earth receive her King" Christian Science Hymnal, No. 164; is the triumphant refrain we associate with the annual commemoration of the birth of Christ Jesus.
Three kings feature in the traditional Christmas story as told in legend and carol. The Bible itself does not specify either the rank or number of these visitors to the newborn Jesus; it describes them as "wise men from the east" Matt.
Why is science fiction so in vogue? Maybe because we seek a richer, more varied sense of environment. Perhaps mankind intuitively longs to see the whole cosmos as having pockets of life.
Every one of God's creatures has its place and purpose assigned it by its Maker. Every idea of divine Mind, God, is directly related to this Mind and directly expresses it.
How great is God's goodness! He is divine Love, and with boundless generosity He pours out spiritual gifts to all His children in unimaginable plenty. Even though this may seem unrealistic to the world's hungry millions, this is the fact.
Perhaps emphasizing its importance, Mary Baker Eddy lists intuition first in a series of elements necessary for a perception of real being. "Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality," Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.