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Show o CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NOTES The lesson-sermon in First Churci nf Christ, Scientist, of Milford, or Thursday November 30, will be or the subject "Thanksgiving." The Golden text is from II Corin thian 4:15: "All things are for youi sake, that the abundant grace mighl through the thanksgiving of mam ebound to the glory of God." One of the scriptural passages contained con-tained in this lesson-sermon is froir Psalms 10r, :1 : "Praise ye the Lorl O, give thanks unto the Ixrd; for he is g(5oel: for his mercy endureth foi ever." Among the correlative passages from "Science and Health with Kuj to the Scriptures," by Mary Bakei Eddy, are the following: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite to-day is big with blessings. Prayer cannot change the unalterable Truth nor can prayer alone give us ari understanding of truth; but prayer coupled with a fervent habitual desire de-sire to know and do the will of God will bring us into all truth." (Preface (Pre-face VII and p. II). "God the Only Cause and Creator," is the subject of the lesson-sermon, Sunday, December 3, in First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Milford. The Golden text is from Isaiah 13:15: "I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel. One of the scriptural passages contained con-tained in tins lesson-sermon is from Genesis 1:1: "(n the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' Correlative passages from the Christian Science Textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", Scrip-tures", by Mary Baker Eddy, read;: "The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify 'the only', that is, the eternal verity anil nuity of God and man, including the universe .... Whatever seems to he a new creation, is but tlie dscovery of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a new multiplication of self-division of mortal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its cloister with amazement and attempts to put tern the infinite." (p. :'.c:j, 501!). |