The
paramount importance of a knowledge of the Scriptures in their application to the welfare and salvation of mankind was never more truly expressed than when Mary Baker Eddy wrote the first tenet of Christian Science.
What
was it that gave the Apostles John and Peter such courage to face the angry rulers of the Jews after the glorious healing brought about at the gate Beautiful?
As
flowers unfold,So come the sacred meaningAnd substance of a truth, each morning mealBringing to lightWith every prayerful gleaningThe messages of God that help and heal.
The
attention of a young businesswoman in a large city was attracted by a woman she often passed on the street who always seemed to reflect an inner joy.
In
ancient Greece the market place was a common meeting ground where learned men expounded their philosophies, and those who had come to transact business stayed to listen and to learn.
"I Pray
not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil" was Jesus' prayer for his followers, whom he was about to leave.
A correct
understanding and application of the Golden Rule and the true conception of the brotherhood of man will eventually be expressed in a right social state and will show forth a type of government that patterns the divine.
When
Jesus prayed the great prayer recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel, it is noticeable that he began by glorifying the Christ, the Son of God.
Through membership in The Mother Church those who have accepted Christian Science have the opportunity for full participation in its world-wide healing and redemptive work, as provided by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.
The following periodicals were founded by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and are published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, One, Norway Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts, U.
It is with profound gratitude for the great good that Christian Science is doing for the world and with the deepest appreciation of what it has done for our family that this testimony is written.
Christian Science came to me with its healing message over twenty-seven years ago, bringing permanent release from a physical difficulty for which medical remedies could offer no help.
From childhood I often prayed that the Christ, Truth, might come into my life, for although I had had a religious education and sought the Word of God in many doctrines.
The following experiences have so clearly proved to me the availability of God's immediate presence, as learned through the study of Christian Science, that I should like to share them with others.
When I was a small child, my mother was told by her physician that an operation would be the only means by which her physical condition might be improved.
Laura T. Carter
with contributions from William A. Carter
When I was about a year old and was afflicted with pneumonia, because there was little hope for my recovery my mother turned resolutely away from matter to Spirit, and I was healed while she was reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
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