In
speaking of the effect upon his disciples of Jesus' resurrection, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 34 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "It helped them to raise themselves and others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into the perception of infinite possibilities.
To
people everywhere who have been dislocated by the war, who have had to turn from ways of living and prospects which they cherished to others of which they knew little and which they would not have chosen, Christian Science offers assurances of the most heartening character.
In
the testimonies given in our churches and periodicals, there are frequent expressions of gratitude for membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its branches; and a great number of people throughout the world know how sincere such expressions can be—how inadequate indeed they often seem to those who offer them.
"The
divine demand, 'Be ye therefore perfect,' is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable," Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Leader of Christian Scientists, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
WHETHER
he is aware of it or not, every individual has within himself, as God's representative, the spirit of prophecy—the ability to express the allness and present availability of divine Love.
As
recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus once said, "The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Christian Scientists
recognize that true worship is allied with true effectiveness in the overcoming of sin, disease, and death, and that the basis of both is recognition of the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil.