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If a painter, musician, sculptor, or craftsman were told that there is a scientific way of thinking that leads to an inspired creation, he might dismiss this claim with cynical doubt. Yet inspiration comes with one's understanding of oneself as he truly is, the son of God.

No greater privilege is afforded the child or young person than that of partaking of the teachings of Christian Science each week in the Christian Science Sunday School. No hour of academic pursuit or laboratory experiment can be equated with the value of study and unfoldment to be found in this holy hour of seeking and learning.

The spiritual law that heals sickness, sin, and all discord is available to everyone. This law is explained in Christian Science.

The proper choice of music for services in Churches of Christ, Scientist, should be a matter of demonstration. This demonstration can be made as the members depend upon God, divine Mind, for guidance and recognize Him as the only source of wisdom, beauty, and harmony.

The Historical Sketch from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy states that the Church of Christ, Scientist, was organized and designed "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.

What lives? What is eternal? Not evil, for it is only a pretense and has in itself the element of self-destruction. Only good lives; only good is immortal.

John tells us, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. " I John 4:18; How often the torment of fear seeks to press itself upon human thought, and how much we all wish to be rid of this torment! What is our remedy for fear? How do we free ourselves? Christian Science shows us that we overcome fear by turning to and relying on perfect Love, God.

Nearly everyone is taught from early childhood to say "Thank you!" If someone gives us a wonderful gift, one we may have been wanting for years, perhaps, wouldn't we feel it incumbent on us to say "Thank you"? Wouldn't we wish to be the one of the ten whom Christ Jesus healed who came back to express gratitude, rather than one of the nine who evidently didn't appreciate his blessing enough to return to give thanks? Those of us who are recipients of the greatest of all gifts, Christian Science, have the joyous privilege of telling others of the great good that has come to us. Mrs.

Christian joy is founded in large measure on the promises of God recorded in the Holy Bible. And often in terms of these promises the Christian Scientist finds a growing acquaintance with his heavenly Father as he progresses in the study and practice of his religion.

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy warns: "There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: 'Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?'" Science and Health, p.