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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

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.

To Help Others Through God's Word

The divine Word is a mighty healing power in human affairs. No mortal condition or force is capable of resisting its transforming, regenerating influence when it is spoken with the authority of Christly understanding.

Defense Against Domination

In the Christian Science Sentinel for June 12, 1909, there appeared an item written by Mary Baker Eddy: "Take Notice. To Christian Scientists: —See Science and Health, page 442, line 30, and give daily attention thereto.

Putting Off the Old Man

The Bible emphasizes the spiritual origin of man. We read: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.