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A study of human history discloses the immeasurable length of time that men have suffered from accepting as power the ignorant beliefs of false prophecy. Yet false prophecy has never had any more power than men have given it.

"Is it wrong to pray for the recovery of the sick?" To this question Mrs. Eddy replies, "Not if we pray Scripturally, with the understanding that God has given all things to those who love Him; but pleading with infinite Love to love us, or to restore health and harmony, and then to admit that it has been lost under His government, is the prayer of doubt and mortal belief that is unavailing in divine Science.

When a person takes the step of joining a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, he makes a conscious effort to purify his thought; and he finds that active service to the church will help him to maintain this purity and will bring him great benefits. Mrs.

The Christian Scientist is generally a responsible citizen, a good neighbor, and an advocate of constructive activity. This is the logical outcome of his understanding and proving to a degree the absolute integrity of his true nature as the child of the heavenly Father.

As we relate human experience, desires, aspirations, and activities to the Divine, bringing these into obedience to Truth and Love, we find satisfying, uplifting good at hand, greater spiritual growth, purer joy, better health, fuller supply, and a freer, happier life. If we relate human experience to the mortal—think and act from a mortal premise—we find limitation, sickness, sin, and death.

Are manhood and womanhood two individual and separate states of being, or are they two natures combined in one complete individual? In the first chapter of Genesis we read that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " Gen.

Eternal correctness—uninterrupted harmony of being. How wonderful it is to contemplate God's universe wherein everything is always correct, in perfect order, and there is only the consciousness of harmony! Since perfect God, the Principle, the Life, of the universe, is infinite, His universe is here and now, and each one can recognize his true being as perfect man existing in the universe of harmony.

Here we stand on the threshold of a new century of Christian Science with the activity of the Christ, Truth, unlimited before us. The challenging and exalting experience in the first century of Christian Science only hints the promise in the second.

In one of Christ Jesus' most beautiful parables he tells us of God's constant, loving care of His children. Simply, but eloquently, he compares it to that of a shepherd's care of his sheep.

One small twig is easily snapped. But many twigs, tightly bound together, will resist increasing pressure.