D E CE MBE R 1 9–2 5 , 2 0 2 2 good tidings of good, that publisheth sal‐

vation;

Christian 9 Break forth into joy, sing together,

ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the

Science Lord hath comforted his people, he hath

redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord hath made bare his holy

arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all

GOLD E N TE X T the ends of the earth shall see the salva‐
tion of our God.
Psalms 119:165 (to :), 174
13 Behold, my servant shall deal pru‐
Great peace have they which love thy law:
dently, he shall be exalted and extolled,
. . . I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord;
and be very high.
and thy law is my delight.
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the

morning, and thine health shall spring

forth speedily:
RE SPONSI VE RE AD I NG
Psalms 98:1 (to :), 2 (to :), 4, 6;
Isaiah 52:7 (to 2 nd ;), 9, 10, 13; 58:8 (to :) SE CTI ON 1
1 O sing unto the Lord a new song; for The Bible
he hath done marvellous things:
1 | I Thessalonians 2:19
2 The Lord hath made known his sal‐
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or
vation:
crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the
4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all
presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his
the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice,
coming?
and sing praise.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet
2 | Isaiah 9:6, 7
make a joyful noise before the Lord, the
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us
King.
a son is given: and the government shall
7 How beautiful upon the mountains
be upon his shoulder: and his name shall
are the feet of him that bringeth good tid‐
be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
ings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The

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Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his Science and Health

government and peace there shall be no with Key to the Scriptures
end, upon the throne of David, and upon by Mary Baker Eddy
his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it 1 | 29:24–26
with judgment and with justice from The Holy Ghost, or divine Spirit, over‐
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the shadowed the pure sense of the Virgin-
Lord of hosts will perform this. mother with the full recognition that be‐
ing is Spirit.
3 | Matthew 1:18–21 (to :)
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was 2 | 332:23–29
on this wise: When as his mother Mary Jesus was the son of a virgin. Christ
was espoused to Joseph, before they Jesus
He was appointed to speak God's
came together, she was found with child word and to appear to mortals in such
of the Holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her a form of humanity as they could under‐
husband, being a just man, and not willing stand as well as perceive. Mary's concep‐
to make her a public example, was mind‐ tion of him was spiritual, for only purity
ed to put her away privily. 20 But while he could reflect Truth and Love, which were
thought on these things, behold, the an‐ plainly incarnate in the good and pure
gel of the Lord appeared unto him in Christ Jesus.
a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of
David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy 3 | 29:32–1
wife: for that which is conceived in her is Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self-
of the Holy Ghost. 21 And she shall bring conscious communion with God.
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
JESUS: 4 | 313:1–8 The
The term Christ Jesus, or The one
4 | Romans 15:13 anointed
Jesus the Christ (to give the
13 Now the God of hope fill you with all full and proper translation of the Greek),
joy and peace in believing, that ye may may be rendered “Jesus the anointed,”
abound in hope, through the power of Jesus the God-crowned or the divinely
the Holy Ghost. royal man, as it is said of him in the first
chapter of Hebrews: —

Therefore God, even thy God, hath anoint‐

ed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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5 | 325:26
The time cometh when the spiritual
origin of man, the divine Science which
ushered Jesus into human presence, will
be understood and demonstrated.
6 | 372:17–18
Christian Science and
Christianity are one.
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The Bible
5 | Luke 2:1, 4 (to ;), 5, 7–11, 13, 14
1 And it came to pass in those days,
that there went out a decree from Cæsar
Augustus, that all the world should be
taxed.
4 And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into
Judæa, unto the city of David, which is
called Bethlehem;
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused
wife, being great with child.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn
son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; be‐
cause there was no room for them in the
inn. 8 And there were in the same coun‐
try shepherds abiding in the field, keeping
watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo,
the angel of the Lord came upon them,
and the glory of the Lord shone round
about them: and they were sore afraid.
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10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not:
for, behold, I bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city
of David a Saviour, which is Christ the
Lord.
13 And suddenly there was with the an‐
Veritable gel a multitude of the heavenly host prais‐
success
ing God, and saying, 14 Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.
6 | Matthew 2:1 behold, 2, 9  and, 10
1 behold, there came wise men from
the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is
he that is born King of the Jews? for we
have seen his star in the east, and are
come to worship him.
9 and, lo, the star, which they saw in
the east, went before them, till it came
and stood over where the young child
was. 10 When they saw the star, they re‐
joiced with exceeding great joy.
7 | II Peter 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of
prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts:
Science and Health
7 | vii:2–10
The wakeful shepherd beholds the first
faint morning beams, ere cometh the full
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radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale divine Principle of scientific mental heal‐
star to the prophet-shepherds; yet it tra‐ ing.
versed the night, and came where, in cra‐
dled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, 11 | 109:22
the human herald of Christ, Truth, who The revelation of Truth in the under‐
would make plain to benighted under‐ standing came to me gradually and appar‐
standing the way of salvation through ently through divine power. When a new
Christ Jesus, till across a night of error spiritual idea is borne to earth, the
should dawn the morning beams and prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly
shine the guiding star of being. fulfilled: “Unto us a child is born, . . . and
his name shall be called Wonderful.”
8 | 95:23
Led by a solitary star amid the dark‐
ness, the Magi of old foretold the Messi‐
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ahship of Truth. Is the wise man of to-day
believed, when he beholds the light The Bible
which heralds Christ's eternal dawn and 8 | Luke 1:68, 78 whereby, 79
describes its effulgence? 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;
for he hath visited and redeemed his peo‐
9 | 98:4–7
ple,
The prophet of to-day Spiritual f ore- 78 whereby the dayspring from on high
shadowings
beholds in the mental hath visited us, 79 To give light to them
horizon the signs of these times, the reap‐ that sit in darkness and in the shadow of
pearance of the Christianity which heals death, to guide our feet into the way of
the sick and destroys error, and no other peace.
sign shall be given.
9 | Luke 2:40, 52
10 | 107:1
40 And the child grew, and waxed
In the year 1866, Christian strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and
Science
I discovered the Christ discovered the grace of God was upon him.
Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and
Love, and named my discovery Christian stature, and in favour with God and man.
Science. God had been graciously prepar‐
ing me during many years for the recep‐ 10 | Mark 1:14 Jesus, 15
tion of this final revelation of the absolute 14 Jesus came into Galilee, preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And

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saying, The time is fulfilled, and the king‐ taining its obvious correspondence with
dom of God is at hand: repent ye, and be‐ the Scriptures and uniting all periods in
lieve the gospel. the design of God.

11 | Matthew 15:30, 31
30 And great multitudes came unto
him, having with them those that were
lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many
others, and cast them down at Jesus'
feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch
that the multitude wondered, when they
saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be
whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to
see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
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12 | 270:14, 31–5
The prophets of old looked Prophetic
ignorance
for something higher than the
systems of their times; hence their fore‐
sight of the new dispensation of Truth.
But they knew not what would be the
precise nature of the teaching and
demonstration of God, divine Mind, in His
more infinite meanings, — the demon‐
stration which was to destroy sin, sick‐
ness, and death, establish the definition of
omnipotence, and maintain the Science
of Spirit.
The life of Christ Jesus was not mirac‐
ulous, but it was indigenous to his spiritu‐
ality, — the good soil wherein the seed of
Truth springs up and bears much fruit.
Christ's Christianity is the chain of scien‐
tific being reappearing in all ages, main‐
13 | 147:6
Late in the nineteenth century
I demonstrated the divine rules of Chris‐
tian Science. They were submitted to the
broadest practical test, and everywhere,
when honestly applied under circum‐
stances where demonstration was hu‐
manly possible, this Science showed that
Truth had lost none of its divine and heal‐
ing efficacy, even though centuries had
passed away since Jesus practised these
rules on the hills of Judæa and in the val‐
leys of Galilee.
14 | 482:27–29 Christian
Christian Science is the Sickness
erroneous
law of Truth, which heals
the sick on the basis of the one Mind or
God.
15 | 150:4–8
To-day the healing power The main
purpose
of Truth is widely demonstrated
as an immanent, eternal Science, instead
of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing
is the coming anew of the gospel of “on
earth peace, good-will toward men.”

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The Bible 16 | xi:9–21

12 | Isaiah 57:19 Peace The physical healing of Christian Sci‐

19 Peace, peace to him that is far off,
and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and
I will heal him.
13 | Ephesians 1:3, 6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ:
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved.
14 | Matthew 21:11
11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus
the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
ence results now, as in Jesus' time, from
the operation of divine Principle, before
which sin and disease lose their reality in
human consciousness and disappear as
naturally and as necessarily as darkness
gives place to light and sin to reformation.
Now, as then, these mighty works are not
supernatural, but supremely natural. They
are the sign of Immanuel, or “God with
us,” — a divine influence ever present in
human consciousness and repeating it‐
self, coming now as was promised afore‐
time,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of
sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised.

15 | Matthew 9:32  behold, 33
17 | 473:26–29
32 behold, they brought to him
Jesus established what he said by
a dumb man possessed with a devil.
demonstration, thus making his acts of
33 And when the devil was cast out, the
higher importance than his words. He
dumb spake: and the multitudes mar‐
proved what he taught. This is the Sci‐
velled, saying, It was never so seen in Is‐
ence of Christianity.
rael.

18 | 135:15–17, 21
16 | Philippians 4:4, 7
When Christ cast out the devil of
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again
dumbness, “it came to pass, when the
I say, Rejoice.
devil was gone out, the dumb spake.”
7 And the peace of God, which passeth
It has been said, and The unity of
all understanding, shall keep your hearts Science and
truly, that Christianity Christianity
and minds through Christ Jesus.
must be Science, and Science must be
Christianity, else one or the other is false

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and useless; but neither is unimportant or SE CTI ON 5

untrue, and they are alike in demonstra‐ The Bible
tion. This proves the one to be identical
17 | Jeremiah 31:33 this
with the other. Christianity as Jesus
33 this shall be the covenant that I will
taught it was not a creed, nor a system of
make with the house of Israel; After those
ceremonies, nor a special gift from
days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in
a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the
their inward parts, and write it in their
demonstration of divine Love casting out
hearts; and will be their God, and they
error and healing the sick, not merely in
shall be my people.
the name of Christ, or Truth, but in
demonstration of Truth, as must be the
18 | Jeremiah 33:6  I  will cure
case in the cycles of divine light.
6 I will cure them, and will reveal unto
19 | 52:23 them the abundance of peace and truth.

The highest earthly representative of

19 | Luke 13:11–13, 17  and all
God, speaking of human ability to reflect
11 And, behold, there was a woman
divine power, prophetically said to his dis‐
which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen
ciples, speaking not for their day only but
years, and was bowed together, and could
for all time: “He that believeth on me, the
in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Je‐
works that I do shall he do also;” and
sus saw her, he called her to him, and said
“These signs shall follow them that be‐
unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from
lieve.”
thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands
20 | 547:6 on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.
You can prove for yourself, dear read‐
17 and all the people rejoiced for all the
er, the Science of healing, and so ascer‐
glorious things that were done by him.
tain if the author has given you the cor‐
rect interpretation of Scripture.
20 | I Thessalonians 5:16, 23

21 | 264:24 16 Rejoice evermore.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify
Spiritual living and Spiritual
proof s of you wholly; and I pray God your whole
blessedness are the only existence
spirit and soul and body be preserved
evidences, by which we can recognize
blameless unto the coming of our Lord
true existence and feel the unspeakable
Jesus Christ.
peace which comes from an all-absorbing
spiritual love.

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22 | 26:10
The Christ was the Spirit Christ’s
which Jesus implied in his
demonstration
own statements: “I am the way, the truth,
and the life;” “I and my Father are one.”
This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus,
was his divine nature, the godliness which
animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love
gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness,
and death. His mission was to reveal the
Science of celestial being, to prove what
God is and what He does for man.
23 | 494:30–3
Our Master cast out devils F ollowers
(evils) and healed the sick. It
of Jesus
should be said of his followers also, that
they cast fear and all evil out of them‐
selves and others and heal the sick. God
will heal the sick through man, whenever
man is governed by God. Truth casts out
error now as surely as it did nineteen cen‐
turies ago.
24 | 162:4–5, 9
Christian Science brings to the body
the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates
and purifies.
The effect of this Science is to stir the
human mind to a change of base, on
which it may yield to the harmony of the
divine Mind.
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25 | 417:10–16
Maintain the facts of Christian Science,
— that Spirit is God, and therefore cannot
be sick; that what is termed matter can‐
not be sick; that all causation is Mind, act‐
ing through spiritual law. Then hold your
ground with the unshaken understanding
of Truth and Love, and you will win.
26 | 144:20, 27
Truth, and not corporeal will, is the di‐
vine power which says to disease, “Peace,
be still.”
When the Science of being is univer‐
sally understood, every man will be his
own physician, and Truth will be the uni‐
versal panacea.
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21 | I Corinthians 3:11 other
11 other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
22 | Isaiah 9:2
2 The people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light: they that dwell in
the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined.
23 | II Thessalonians 3:16 (to 1 st .), 18
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give
you peace always by all means.
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18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will be sought and taught, and will glow in
be with you all. Amen. all the grandeur of universal goodness.

29 | 269:21–25 (to 2 nd .)
Science and Health
The testimony of the Biblical
27 | 136:1–2 f oundations
material senses is neither
Jesus established his church and absolute nor divine. I therefore plant my‐
maintained his mission on a spiritual self unreservedly on the teachings of Je‐
foundation of Christ-healing. sus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and
on the testimony of the Science of Mind.
28 | 328:30
Other foundations there are none.
The purpose of his great life-work ex‐
tends through time and includes univer‐ 30 | 506:10–12
sal humanity. Its Principle is infinite, Through divine Science, Spirit, God,
reaching beyond the pale of a single peri‐ unites understanding to eternal harmony.
od or of a limited following. As time The calm and exalted thought or spiritual
moves on, the healing elements of pure apprehension is at peace.
Christianity will be fairly dealt with; they

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