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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

TRUE PROPHECY

Prophecy is concerned with lifting A human experience above that which seems to be taking place in the affairs of mankind. That state of being which is absolute—the eternal perfection and allness of God—neither demands nor needs prophecy.

TRAVEL LIGHT!

Travel light! This is good advice to any traveler. It is the best possible advice to the happy traveler who is making his way up the hill of Christian Science, traveling from sense to Soul on his way to the promised land.

CIRCULATION

Circulation implies activity. Synonyms of "circulate" are active words, such as spread, diffuse, disseminate; and one definition of it is "to pass or go about from place to place, from person to person,.

THE HOLY BIBLE

It is noteworthy that following her immediate recovery from the effects of a fall and injury which physicians and medicine had failed to heal, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, turned to her Bible in her search for the understanding of the spiritually scientific law whereby she had regained her health. Speaking of this, she writes in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p.

AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR

Probably nothing that Christian Science teaches is more vigorously or more subtly resisted than its appraisal of evil as nothingness. Yet a clear understanding of this appraisal is an essential factor in healing the sick and in overcoming every type of error that besets mankind.

GIHON

David and Solomon were successive kings of Israel. Their reigns present a striking contrast.

AFTER THIS MANNER WE PRAY

Because Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, presented the subject of prayer from an entirely new standpoint and from a spiritual and metaphysical aspect that ran contrary to the traditional concepts associated with orthodox religion, she was called by some "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy.

GOD'S CONTROL

" The spiritual dominates the temporal. " These significant words are to be found on page 193 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" by Mary Baker Eddy.

REPORT OF PROGRESS

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings' Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 330 ): "It is good to talk with our past hours, and learn what report they bear, and how they might have reported more spiritual growth.

"LET US ... COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE"

The emphasis which Christian Science places on God as the all-pervading, all-inclusive presence naturally corrects the faulty theological concept of Deity as a remote or distant entity. In doing this.