An
experienced church worker once called my attention to Article VIII, Section 14, of the Manual of The Mother Church, in which Mary Baker Eddy writes, "It shall be the privilege and duty of every member, who can afford it, to subscribe for the periodicals which are the organs of this Church.
Christ jesus,
the master Metaphysician, never wasted time with idle words, but always spoke with the authority of spiritual understanding, each word having a specific meaning.
The
story of the flood in the book of Genesis is the first instance recorded in the Bible of the protective power of the understanding of God in the presence of physical danger.