The
inspirational meetings which a branch church holds before a Christian Science lecture is given, are very helpful in alerting members to the necessity for vigorous and consecrated thinking in regard to the coming event.
Twenty
years after Mary Baker Eddy gave to the world the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she published the first edition of the Manual of The Mother Church.
The
practice of Christian Science requires some degree of understanding of God's allness as infinite Mind, Spirit, or Life, of man's present and eternal perfection as Mind's immortal idea or reflection, of the changeless, indestructible universe, and of Love's perpetual law of universal harmony.
With
what joy do we come to see, as all eventually must, that God, our loving Father, does indeed have a purpose and plan for His creation that includes each one of us.
In
the twentieth chapter of II Chronicles we find Jehoshaphat and the children of Judah in a very serious predicament, about to be attacked by the people of Moab, Ammon, and mount Seir.
