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Show MATERIAL THEORIES HELD NOT ALL GOOD "Reality" is the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, March 2G. Among the selections from the Bible arc the following: "One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. They shall abundantly abund-antly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness" (Psalms 145: 4, 7). Included as a correlative is the following from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Scrip-tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "God, good, is self-existent and self-expressed, though indefinable indefin-able as a whole. Every step towards to-wards goodness is a departure from materiality, and is a tendency tend-ency towards God, Spirit. Material Ma-terial theories partially paralyze this attraction towards infinite and eternal good by an opposite attraction towards the finite, temporary, and discordant" (p. 213). O I |