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Christian Science

(Continued from Page Six) sideration of healing as it is purely mental, spiritual, not material. The sufferer or invalid may believe that his difficulty is caused by inflamed or infected matter. But the truth is that his difficulty comes from a wrong concept of what man is, and of what God is. In that realm where Mind, Spirit, Principle, Life governs, there can be no room for pain, imperfection, disease, disaster, death. The Christian Science textbook says (p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." This fact of creation precludes the possibility of a material condition known as sickness, disease, suffering. As we understand the impossibility of matter being in the realm of divine Mind we arrive at a state of consciousness that prevents the entrance of any thought of sin, disease, or death. When the human mind is imbued with and gains the thought of sin, disease, and death, such conditions will cease to make demands, and we shall find ourselves able to accept and claim the perfection voiced by Christ Jesus when he said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The healing activity or process in Christian Science becomes, then, the prayer of realization, or affirmation, or demonstration. The type of prayer as used in Christian Science is typified approximately in the twenty-third Psalm and in the Lord's Prayer. Prayer, then, in Christian Science is the expression of rejoicing, of gratitude, of confidence, of courage, of absolute faith in God. The textbook says (p. 1), "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfish love." Every Bible reader is familiar with healing instances related in both the Old and the New Testament, which incidents clearly illustrate and typify the healing ministry and activity of Christian Science. In the twenty-first chapter of Genesis is related an interesting healing, illustrating how mental and spiritual is the process. Hagar, with her child, wandered in the wilderness, and apparently because of her disappointment and sorrow and resentment, lost her way and became somewhat fearful for the life of herself and the child. The healing result is related in these words: "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water." The rest of the story relates how the child and she were sustained, and of the promise that out of the lad would grow a great nation. Also in II Kings is an interesting incident where the prophet, or man of God, was surrounded by a hostile military force come to take him prisoner. His young man, viewing the surrounding troops, became greatly alarmed. The healing is portrayed in these words: "And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." The balance of the chapter tells how Elisha not only was not taken captive, but led the soldiers captive and then eventually dismissed them to their master without hurt or harm to anyone. The invalid who comes with fear and trembling, recounting his pains, his symptoms, his weaknesses, needs only to have his eyes opened to see God's perfect handiwork - man in His image and likeness - that he may understand the unreality of material conditions, and claim and realize the true nature of his being as spiritual, perfect man. Considering these two outstanding incidents of healing as related in the Old Testament, the reader cannot but observe that the satisfactory answer to prayer in each case was found in the awakened consciousness of the seeker to realize or see that his relief lay in the omniscient fact of God's presence, power, and harmony. In following this line of reasoning, bearing in mind the true concept of God, we are led to the conclusion that relief from any distressing human condition is found in the realization that God's way and God's plan is always the perfect way and plan, which, when understood and acknowledged by man, reveals the presence and existence of health or freedom indicated by Christ Jesus in his oft-quoted statement, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The scientific process of healing, then, as taught and practiced in Christian Science (which system is the result of a study of healing in both Old and New Testament history), becomes, largely, if not entirely, a procedure of seeking, knowing, and acknowledging what is really the fact of being in any particular situation. In the twentieth chapter of II Chronicles is related an interesting human experience, the detailed account of which indicated great suffering and loss and unhappiness in a war on the part of the children of Judah with much superior forces preparing for battle against them. In this extremity the king, being a faithful follower of God, called on his people to gather in something like a national prayer meeting, to inquire of God what could be done in the face of impending danger and possible loss. The word of God that revealed to the prophet present at the meeting, and the simple message was "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yet your's, but God's. . . . Ye shall not need to fight in this battle." This declared safety and deliverance through God was accepted joyfully; and immediately steps were made for thanksgiving and rejoicing instead of a war. Presently the enemy suffered disaster from within their ranks and were dispelled and destroyed without any effort being made on the part of Judah in fight. These ancients, depending on God, saw truly that no fight was needed on their part, and that indeed the battle was God's. Christian Science, taking its lesson from this and other incidents, teaches that always the battle is God's, and man needs only to acknowledge God in all his ways. Man, being conscious of God's being, intelligently and omnipotently expressed, may always find himself safe and satisfied - even in the midst of the fray. Listen to the gentle and inspiring words: "Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you." In the first chapter of Genesis appears a very comprehensive and remarkable statement in these words: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Sensibly and naturally Christian Science adopts this simple and far-reaching statement as a basis for the discernment and acknowledgment of good, even perfection, in any and every real circumstance. And, consequently, this reasoning must make a distinction in all situations between the real and unreal. In line with the logical conclusion from Genesis and the resultant conclusion as taught in Christian Science, the first chapter of the Gospel of John a supporting statement in these words: "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Surely every believer in the inspired Word of the Bible is ready to agree that God could not, and would not, be the author or creator of anything unlike Himself. Even in our human concept of accomplishments, such creations as pictures, buildings, poetry, etc., are recognized as the product of certain masters. They are seen to be expressions of the talents, nature, and being of their creators. Much more, in considering the work of Deity, must the real always perfectly express the infinite creator. The fact concerning the universe is that in God's creation, which is the only there can be no imperfection, no discord, no decay. This becomes highly practical when one is applying Christian Science to work for, pray for, or help the so-called sick. The Christian Science worker, then, understands so naturally that the man of God's creation cannot be an expression of sickness, cannot be a suggestion or argument of discord, pain, imperfection, Is belied by the understanding that all that God has made is very good, and that without Him has not anything been made. The Christian Science worker may use argument similar to what you have heard to persuade and to convince himself and the patient that normally, naturally, and scientifically man is perfect and cannot be otherwise. In addition to the audible persuasive statements or arguments, the worker will endeavor, by the suasion of thought, to lift the consciousness of the patient to that point in the thought of the master Christian, Christ Jesus, when he said, "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." There is no mystefy, no miracle, says the Christian Scientist concerning the so-called treatment, or work, or prayer. The efficacy of such treatment, or work, or prayer, is not due to any particular words in the mouth or thought of the worker, but depends purely upon the recognition and acceptance by the practitioner and the patient of the divine presence and power through an awakened consciousness, or understanding on their part. The healing work in Christian Science is not based on any assumption that man really becomes sick and must be healed by a mysterious and omnipotent power; but sickness, so called, is recognized in Christian Science as a bodily manifestation produced alone by an erroneous mental condition on the part of the patient and on the part of those around him. The original erroneous belief in nearly every case is in the assumption that sickness is even possible. When man's consciousness refuses entirely to accept even the suggestion of imperfection as the truth, sickness, so called, will cease to be a menace to mankind. This process, known in Christian Science as treatment, or prayer, is apparently voiced by Paul in these words in his letter to the Romans: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." His meaning is obvious in saying, "Be not conformed to this world"-that is, to the beliefs of sin, disease, and death. Neither is it difficult to follow his meaning in the second part of his statement to be "transformed by the renewing of your mind," that one may prove in his experience the will of God. If there be any difficulty in healing, it may lie perhaps in the unwillingness or inability of the patient in the question of being transformed and the lack of spiritual power and understanding on the part of the practitioner. The so-called mortal or carnal mind referred to by Paul as "enmity against God" is apathetic, indifferent to change, and perhaps rebellious concerning intelligent and persistent activity in the direction of reform. This is the same state of mind represented in the Master's time in the words imputed to the evil spirit in saying: "What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?" Many an invalid desires healing, and at the same time is unwilling to put forth the necessary mental effort to become aroused, awakened, moved, changed, reformed, that he may experience the "acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Surely this mental activity will be accepted as an entirely scientific procedure. A modern astronomer calculates from known locations in astronomy where certain stars or celestial bodies should be, and then turns his telescope in that direction, and is rewarded by seeing the object of his search. The scientific accuracy in directing the position of the telescope has not moved the sought star one charred its position in any particular, and his scientific work has simply verified the accuracy of his mathematically calculated fact. In spiritual or mental healing in Christian Science, the processes used to obtain the desired result have not in the slightest altered or changed the real man of God's creation, but the Christian mental procedure has awakened and aroused the patient to a point of seeing, accepting, and acknowledging the fact of God's creation in the perfect man. When the perfect man is seen, then the imperfect man has disappeared. This healing thought is expressed in the Christian Science textbook in these words (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." The Apostle Paul, in the third chapter of II Corinthians, pursues, or uses a similar argument based on his discerning, or perceiving the perfect. He speaks of the "veil" which has blinded the minds of men but is done away in Christ. And his summation of the mental process is in these words: "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." This is quoted by a modern translator of the New Testament in this fitting and useful expression: "And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit." In the active experience of healing work in Christian Science, one quickly recognizes that the state of seeing is the the rule in every case. One of the notable healings mentioned in the Old Testament provides an example of healing quite different from the mental argument that has been brought out in this lecture. The story told, as mentioned in the fifth chapter of II Kings, was a leper. Information was conveyed to him that a prophet in Israel could heal him if his services were sought. Obviously, Naaman was not a follower of the Hebrew religion, but went to this stranger, the prophet Elisha, to be healed. In the reading of this incident one finds that the prophet knew of his coming and had apparently decided on the method of treatment before the arrival of Naaman and his company of followers. In this case the prophet did not even see the patient, but sent his servant with a message to Naaman to go and wash seven times in the River Jordan, with the promise that he would be clean. At first Naaman was unhappy and unwilling to comply with the prophet's direction, perhaps on the theory that there were rivers in his own country that were wider and clearer and more buoyant than the River Jordan appeared to be, and he thought that if it were just a question of dipping in the water the waters of his own rivers would be more effective. However, members of his party saw, and called to Naaman's attention, the reasonableness of the prophet's request and the promise of the recovery thereto. His humble acceptance and compliance with the prophet's direction, and indeed, an entire change of thought on Naaman's part, which resulted in his healing. Certain it is that the prophet had no thought that Naaman must express a change of thought concerning the nature of God or man's being. His words to wash in the River Jordan, we may conclude, indicate that some action was to be taken by Naaman as an evidence of his faith in the word of the prophet, and his reliance upon the power of the prophet's God; and it may well denote an entire and joyful acceptance of the possibility of freedom from this loathsome disease through his obedience. His action in complying denoted rid-dance of his haughty, and egotistic will, and a childlike faith in the prophet's word. The record further relates that he was immediately cleansed, and there is much to be thought of in considering the language of the scriptural record of his healing, concerning Naaman's state of mind as told in these words: "His flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." This reference to the little child is perhaps an outline of the condition brought out in the Master's ministry that he who humbles himself as a little child, "the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Christian Science in this spiritual interpretation or version, of the Bible, brings out frequently the connection and relation-ship between the Old and New Testament. One will find the student an occasional glimpse of the continuity and scientific appearance and understanding of the divine presence and divine power through the ages of thought represented in the Holy Scriptures, (See Science and Health, p. 174: 17-21.) One of the important features recognized and taught in Christian Science healing is the oneness of God and His creation, and the nothingness of all evil, which if a term used to denote the unreal, or all that is unlike God. We can scarcely think or desire a more satisfying truth, or fact than the allness of God and His creation. One could scarcely believe that any thinking Christian would dispute the proposition of God's allness, which is so often brought out in scriptural passages; and yet the same Christians might and do dispute the teaching of Christian Science that there can be no sickness, no imperfection, no evil in God's universe, because such conditions are no part of God and therefore, are impossible and unreal. In the Preface to the Christian Science textbook is this expression (p. vii): "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. . . . The time for thinkers has come." Surely the Christian thinker is ready to adopt as his theory of life and practice fact of God's allness and the perfection of God's creation. The writer of the second chapter of Genesis, in an effort to describe a material creation, prefaces his description of material creation by reference to a mist that went up from the earth. In Christian Science this mist is treated as mystification, or mistake, or misunderstanding, or the "veil" mentioned by Paul, or darkness. Every belief or suggestion of sickness, or accident, or discord, or sin, is but the appearance (as suggestion) of this mist which went up from the earth and which obviously did not come from God. We know in nature that a mist is cleared away by the sun; the effort in Christian Science towards healing is always a search for and pursuit of light or truth, which speedily dispels or destroys the mist, and reveals God and His allness. A further illustration as proof that healing as practiced by Jesus was a recognition of God's power as always present, rather than healing being a detailed miracle, or super-natural intervention of the Father, is to be found in the healing of Lazarus as related in the eleventh chapter of John's Gospel. The Master's prayer indicates his state of mind: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." The further remark of the incident indicates Jesus' calling Lazarus to come forth, and the man was restored to life. Surely we must conclude that Jesus knew all the time that man's life is immortal and perfect as the gift of God, and that there are not two creations but indications of his confidence that there is no death. It was this sureness and thorough understanding of spiritual, perfect manhood that enabled him to speak the awakening word that called Lazarus from the dream of death. In Christian Science there are no set words or formulas for prayer or treatment. Indeed, the use of formulas is forbidden in the practice of healing. The indicium of the one seeking to use Christian Science needs this basic truth and understanding of God's perfection, and of the real man as expressing the image and likeness of God. As he is filled with this state of consciousness, and made sure of God's allness and of the fact that he is the expression, and reflection, and image of God, his mind, his speech, his health, his activity, his well-being; and his faith being well grounded and founded, his healing is the result. This is in accord with Jesus' statement, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Some of the very vivid statements and promises of the Master, calculated to produce unfailing courage in man, is: "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." And who this enemy is the mist already referred to, and the power given to us is the power of light, or truth, that dispels and destroys the mist. In this, and through the study of Christian Science, we are quickly enabled to understand how Jesus could make with confidence the statement, and reveal the manifestation of God and His power with such perfect assurance. Surely that period of understanding is dawning in human consciousness when the truth so ably propounded by Jesus is being accepted and practiced by Christians everywhere. Surely the time approaches when men will seek the truth, and pursue the truth, will give all in an effort to have the truth, that the salvation promised by the Master may become a reality in our human experience. Surely the word of the prophet of old shall find its fruition in modern experience: "Break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." Out of the multiplicity of human theories concerning freedom, dominion, and universal human welfare that are being propounded today, a definite and final inspired effort of humanity to break up the fallow ground and to seek the Lord until He be found, and until the rain of righteousness be upon us. Christian Science is pointing the way. The textbook of Christian Science is leading human thought to an understanding and to a possession of the facts of divine creation, even to realization and acknowledgement of man's present perfection, and the possibility of a present acceptance of health, life, and happiness, even the possession of "every good gift and every perfect gift," denoting an acknowledgement of God's perfection here and now. The book of Revelation reveals John's perception of wonderfully possibilities for man in this present state of being. From his retreat at Patmos he perceived a new heaven and a new earth, and man as the blessed child of God, which is but a recognition of Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you." The Christian Science textbook is a guide in lifting spiritual consciousness is there fore a present possibility." Business From a physical standpoint, human beings face the need for food, lodging, and necessities for everyday existence. To meet this need men and women are ordinarily engaged in some kind of activity known as work or business. The desire for some such expression in life is well nigh universal, and is often founded upon the thought of being serviceable and useful to others. This is a proper spiritual basis for scientific activity in the business world, and one so engaged will find much in the Bible and in the teaching of Christian Science that will be helpful in pointing him to success. Jesus emphasizes the necessity for taking a part in life, as well as the necessity of seeking that activity in the spiritual realm. He said: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." Also: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." In this connection it is interesting to notice the statement of one of the Old Testament prophets, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Giving, seeking the kingdom of God, and bringing the tithes, are all of the same essence, to wit, the giving of the necessity of our rendering some service, providing some action and activity which will result in the pouring into our lives of great blessings. In the Christian Science textbook, on page 595, among the definitions of "tithe" are these spiritual ones: "Contribution; . . . homage; gratitude." In considering the tithes that are due, bringing into God's storehouse, that is, that one needs to make acknowledgment to the omnipotent, we may well bear in mind "contribution; . . . homage; gratitude," as well as other qualities of thought, as Paul expresses, "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; . . . think on these things." And again from II Peter, "Giving all dilligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity." How often we have seen instances in business and business experience of certain people where they have brought these and other tithes into the storehouse, and how truly the blessings have poured! Surely man will not neglect in business this opportunity, this necessity, this requirement, to bring the tithes into the storehouse. Such is the teaching of Christian Science. In consideration of man's business possibilities we may well take a lesson from the life of the master Christian. It is generally believed that from twelve to thirty, or thereabouts, the Master followed the business of carpentry. At twelve his answer to the inquiry of his mother would indicate that whatever he did it must be about "Father's business." The quiet eighteen years in the carpenter shop at Nazareth must have seen the production of many yokes and plows and carts and other useful implements of the farm and household. Through these eighteen years there was undoubtedly carried on the Master's business career. During the hours when he was fashioning a yoke, or expertly completing a cart, he must have been mentally conscious of the perfection of creation, and this spiritual contemplation of God's perfect way must have been the dominating thought in all his work and life. At thirty, then after these eighteen years of quiet constant meditation upon the things of God's perfection, perfections recorded in the old German creations in beautiful workmanship, the Master was ready for the most glorious experience in helping men, and in pointing the way, that the world can ever know. Within the grasp of every man connected with a right human business activity is the divine possibility of being about our Father's business, even as the Master was. He can be perfect in his honesty, just in his consideration of customers, barren of all desire to defeat competitors until the activity would not be competition but co-operation; he can be intelligently intent upon making the activity perfect, satisfactory, enduring in the constant vision of perfection depicted by the Master; he can well go forward day after day and year after year with a quiet, confident expectancy that the desire and endeavor to be about his Father's business is qualifying him for everyday, normal, useful aid to his fellow man, until indeed he can realize in all of its fullness and glory the promise voiced by the Master himself, the expression of God's love and bounty toward His children, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." Discoverer and Founder The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, having first been able to prove in her own human experience the availability of God's law and God's power to heal human problems, enlarged and increased her study of the Bible, until at last she felt impelled to study the need of spiritual interpretation and understanding of the Bible as directed even by the Master in the statement that God must be worshiped "in spirit and in truth." Her efforts to promote and make practical and effective a spiritual vision of Life were met naturally with great human opposition and hostility, for the methods of the plan were radically opposed to the common teaching and experience of humanity. With an unswerving purpose, faith, unselfishness, and persistence, Mrs. Eddy continued her efforts, and they were rewarded in worldwide recognition of a spiritual discovery, on her part, and a spiritual reform of the world, resulting in great comfort, healing, and blessing to multitudes. Mrs. Eddy's plans and program for church activity and church maintenance may have seemed unusual or even impossible to the world. But she turned thought toward infinite supply and divine direction rather than to the ordinary human plans of churches. The experience of the years has proved how wisely and well the foundation of the Christian Science movement were laid by its Discoverer and Founder. She perceived the need of human agencies for the spread of this gospel, and in due time established a Publishing Society that has carried on an immense and wholesome activity in sending out this message of healing and truth through its various publications throughout the civilized world. She founded a church, The Mother Church, from which has grown a great number of branch churches throughout the civilized world that are continually propounding and proving this spiritual power and activity for the benefit of all who are willing to hear and to heed. After the discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy devoted herself assiduously, energetically, with a wholly consecrated energy and effort, to the teaching and proving of this spiritual truth. She gave her all to her discovery, and the results of her consecration and devotion are ample testimonies to the purity and perfection of her vision which enabled her to say (Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 34): "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ." Truly it may be said of this modern teacher, and Leader, and Founder, that she has been an instrument in bringing multitudes to the realization of the Psalmist's prayer of discernment, "For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness." Christian Scientists, therefore, are truly grateful to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Textbook The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was the supreme and crowning effort of Mrs. Eddy's effort to properly interpret the Bible, and to correctly define man's true relationship to God, and the procedure required to prove this relationship in health and happiness. The textbook has had its baptism of fire. Opposed through the early years, at times violently, from pulpits, platforms, newspapers, magazines, and other form of publications. That this marked hostility and oftentimes intemperate criticism have largely disappeared, is proof of the permanence and truth of this text. Having been based upon the truth, and proven by the Bible, it is not surprising, but very natural, that the textbook should be established as reliable and useful, and as a permanent record of a remarkable movement in the history of Christianity. The unpredjudiced student of the Christian Science textbook will find remarkable and yet understandable statements therein that he would not previously have been impossible to be perceived except as the result of inspiration and divine revelation. The reading and study of this book will bring to any faithful student a concept of a higher and more noble fatherhood, and of a nobler purpose and motive than he has before entertained, and will thereby naturally promote his spirituality, his health, and his happiness. Salvation In a world of human beliefs, erroneously entertained and disseminated, concerning there is a great need for the light, and truth, and power revealed in Christian Science. The world is familiar with many dire predictions that civilization and Christianity will be obliterated in the activity of the carnal hate and selfishness, which is so general. Christian Science reveals the counteracting influence and existence of that omnipotent and benevolently power that makes possible man's continued living and being on a new and better plane of understanding. In giving man the infinite conception of infinite Mind, divine Love, which is particular to the teachings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science in these words from "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 82, 83): "This Mind, then, is not subject to growth, change, or diminution, but is the divine intelligence, or principle, of all real being; holding man forever in the rhythmic round of unfoldment, as a living witness to and perpetual idea of inexhaustible good."

SCIENCE AND HEALTH With Key to the Scriptures BY MARY BAKER EDDY

The original standard and only Textbook on Christian Science Mind-healing in one volume of 700 pages. Sold in the cloth edition at $2.00 and $3.00, and in leather editions at $3.00, $4.00, $5.00, and $6.00; also in German and French translations at $2.50 and $5.50. Published by the TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER EDDY, BOSTON, MASS. The Textbook and all other works by Mrs. Eddy may be read, borrowed or purchased at these Christian Science Reading Rooms: CORAL GABLES 144 Avenue Aragon, open 12 Noon to 5 P. M. Monday and Thursday, 7:30 to 9 P. M. MIAMI 23 Sweethear 2nd Ave. (Ingraham Bldg.): open 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. (Sunday, 2-5). COCONUT GROVE 3458 Main Highway, open 12:15 to 4:45 P. M. MIAMI BEACH 1007 Michigan Ave., open 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.