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 530 Popular Bibles that some adherents are reported to have abandoned Christian Science because they could not see how God could be All in All and "M. A. M." be half and half. To crown all, many outside of Christian Science are puzzled that the Lord's Prayer should seem to need the curious com- mentary given it in both Science and Health and public worship : Our Father which art in heaven. Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious. Hallowed be Thy Name. Adorable One. Thy Kingdom come. Thy kingdom is come, Thou art ever-present. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth — God is omnipotent, supreme. Give us this day our daily bread ; Give us grace for today; feed the famished affections; And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And love is reflected in love. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil; And God leadeth us not into temptation, but deliver eth us from sin, disease, and death. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory forever ! For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.* After her experience in passing from a youth and middle age of doubtful health into an old age of good health, the more re- markable because of her natural frailness, Mrs. Eddy staked the value of her magnum opus upon the therapeutics which it taught. Her followers have done the same. Results have been shown in the many cures reported in the Wednesday evening testimony meeting, so well attended, in some places regularly by thousands, that the mid-week service, to most denominations a problem, and to many a farce, must be reckoned with by those who study Science and Health from any point of view. Through her book Mrs. Eddy has achieved results, having
 * (Science and Health, p. i6.)