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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

Indispensable Books of Reference

On the shelves of serious students of Christian Science, within reach as they study the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings, are usually to be found at least two or three additional books.

Looking Behind Language to Spiritual Ideas

While things that are true from a human point of view may be expressed in the human language of speech or writing, or mathematical symbols, or whatever, divine Truth—absolutely speaking—expresses itself in purely spiritual ideas. These may be hinted at or conveyed in human language with magnificent beauty and clarity, as they are in Mrs.

The Challenge

A world without poverty, without strife, and without fear—this is possible in proportion as we accept the challenge of Christ Jesus, "Follow me. " Matt.

Through Christian Science we can look beneath the surface of things to see the essential significance of events and institutions. University departments encompass, in concentrated form, some highly important human thinking.

Building for Immortality

In the human mind there is often evidence of a longing to be remembered by posterity. Kings and presidents are automatically immortalized by having permanent places in the history books.

Remembering the Sabbath

If we plan a Sunday banquet and invite our friends, do we wait until Sunday to begin thinking about it? Or do we begin well ahead of time, planning the menu, even making sure we have the right clothes to wear? Every week we prepare a spiritual feast—if we are members of a church —and we invite everyone in the neighborhood. We call it a church service.

The Value of Intellectual Development

Thoughts—thousands of them! All day they flow through the human mind in a constant stream. We are fully conscious of some of them, but of others we are not.

The Impersonality of God and Man

Mankind generally is growing out of anthropomorphism—that is, ascribing human form and characteristics to God. While God has been represented in the art of the past as a man with a beard, this concept is not widely tenable for modern people.

Life Is Timeless

The way we schedule our lives it would seem that time is the one great fact of existence. Not only do we eat, sleep, rise, work, and play by the clock, but we divide our lives into periods we liken poetically to months or seasons of the year.

The Accurate Interpretation of Being Heals

All that really is, is divine Mind and its activity or idea. To mortal sense—to that which assumes the materiality of all cause and effect—it doesn't seem this way.