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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

RADICAL RELIANCE

Many sufferers have come to Christian Science because all other means of restoration had failed. They turned to it as a last resort and found their needs supplied and their problems solved.

TRUE JUDGMENT

True judgment is the ability to arrive at correct conclusions. It calls for discernment, wisdom, intelligence, justice; but most of all, it calls for love.

THE PRAYER OF SOUL

The Lord's Prayer is one of the precious gifts which Christendom has received from Christ Jesus, the great Way-shower of men. It is the one prayer in which all Christian denominations can unite to glorify God.

SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION

On pages 115 and 116 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy reveals the steps of translation to be taken in reaching the immortal and spiritual idea of Life. She has called this transition "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind.

FULFILLING DIVINE PURPOSE

Nothing can ever hinder or prevent the fulfillment of God's purpose for His creation. Each one of His ideas from the least to the greatest is uninterruptedly doing His will and manifesting His power.

HUMILITY

It is sometimes said that humility is the most elusive Christian virtue, for to be truly humble one must be unaware of being so. In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin quaintly shows the elusiveness of this virtue.

OUR APPROACH TO THE HEART OF LOVE

Happy the man who realizes through spiritual sense that the only real heart is the great heart of divine Love, and that man is God's image and likeness. Paul wrote ( Rom.

FILLING ONE'S NICHE

New Year's Day is a time of questioning, of turning over a new leaf as the saying goes, of good resolves and renewed endeavor to improve oneself. The point which Christian Science stresses in this endeavor is the need for demonstrating one's real spiritual individuality as the image of God.

PAYING OUR DEBTS

All men have debts to pay. Many people feel heavily burdened by their debts, and some are disturbed when these are not promptly paid by friends or business associates who are indebted to them.

THE WAY OUT

Revelation is the Word of God communicated through spiritual sense to one spiritually prepared to receive it. Revelation is the bringing to light of that which has always existed in the eternal order of being.