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Show CHRFSnANSOENCE The Christian Science Lesson-Sermon Lesson-Sermon for Sunday,, April 26 is "Probation After Death". Among the Scriptural references refer-ences are: "Search me, 0 God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Ps. 139:23, 24). "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger strong-er and stronger." (Job. 17:9). "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always al-ways abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (I Cor 15: 58). The following excerpts are from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: "Progress is born of ex. perienoe. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped from the immortal." im-mortal." (p. 296 : 4-6). "Universal "Univer-sal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind, in which all the manifestations manifesta-tions of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there, and man is found having no righteousness right-eousness of his own but in possession posses-sion of 'the mind of the Lord,' as the Scriptures say", (p. 291: 12-19). 12-19). V |