When
our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, provided in the Church Manual definite opportunities for the expression of gratitude for healings received in Christian Science, she was undoubtedly far more keenly aware of the import of acknowledging such benefits than is the average student.
Among
the basic teachings of Christian Science is that of the complete separateness of the spiritual truth about man as the image and likeness of God, divine Mind, and the false, physical theory of man as a mortal with a material beginning and end.
"Perhaps
the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
