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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

A PERFECT BALANCE

Christian Science healing is based upon the revelation of God as absolute Truth, perfect Mind, and of man as Mind's perfect, hence absolute, formation—God's likeness, which cannot be contaminated by evil. And it interprets the healings and the life of Christ Jesus as proofs of these facts.

THE SECRET PLACE

Man's awareness of his total inclusion in God is private and sacred. It is referred to by the word "secret" both in the Bible and in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science and thus brought to mankind the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus.

GOD'S KNOWING

THE discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy has brought to light the fact that the creative function of Deity, divine Mind, is a ceaseless, knowing activity and that creation is the formation of that knowing—an infinity of divine ideas. Mrs.

REVERENCE, RESPECT, AND COURTESY

THE name of Jesus is one we all reverence. As our Way-shower he pointed the way of salvation which enables us to run a straight course and attain our spiritual objective.

THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT

THE words of the master Christian ( Matt. 22:38 ), "This is the first and great commandment," pronounced with emphatic reference to the primary obligation of each individual to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," have special significance for mankind today.

THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

THE conversion of Saul of Tarsus to Christianity took place on the road to Damascus. Saul, who proudly styled himself "an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee" ( Phil.

PRINCIPLE AND RULE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has restored healing as a fundamental element of Christian worship. It reveals the Principle of healing to be God, infinite Love, who eternally acts through changeless laws to produce, maintain, and govern a universe of spiritual ideas.

ORIGINAL SOUL NULLIFIES ORIGINAL SIN

WHO knows the origin of man, the origin of his own existence, spiritually understood? The individual who can and does answer that question correctly is equipped with dominion over evil, with definite and holy power to establish the consciousness of good as his own, and to demonstrate that that consciousness is accompanied by the evidence which bears witness to its reality. He is so equipped because he knows himself.

TRUTH'S REVELATION

Mary Baker Eddy felt no doubt regarding the divine origin of the Science she set forth in the Christian Science textbook. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( pp.

DESIRE MOVED WITH COMPASSION

The Psalmist, turning his thought to God, declared ( 51:6 ), "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. " Mary Baker Eddy makes a statement that might be considered correlative when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.