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Christian Science teaches that angels are God's messengers, or holy thoughts imparted from the divine Mind to human consciousness. When we apply this fact to interpret spiritually the angel visitations in the Easter story, the tender, comforting love of God for all His children permeates that drama anew.

Individuals can and do rise into the dawning light of spiritual resurrection when they are willing to lay on the altar what seems to be their most precious human possession—the mortal sense of self. This willingness must have as its constant companions uncompromising integrity, humility, and a sincere desire to put off the graveclothes of self-indulgence and self-justification.

In thinking of the music in our church services, whether in relation to the work of the organist and the soloist or to the singing of hymns, we would do well to consider what Mrs. Eddy says about music.

"Woman, why weepest thou?" John 20:13, 15; Twice was Mary Magdalene thus questioned that first day of the week when, in the early morning dark, she stood outside the empty sepulcher weeping. So great was her grief, her sense of love lost, her feeling of futility and despair, that even when she saw Christ Jesus standing near, she did not know him.

During his glorious interval of revelation on the Isle of Patmos, John was told to write what he heard and saw for the enlightenment of the churches. This divine revelation of Truth has come down to us through the centuries in all its strength and power.

When Christ Jesus entered the Garden of Gethsemane, he was accompanied by Peter, James, and John, three of his most trusted and loved disciples. But at a certain point he left them, and the Gospel of Matthew records that he himself "went a little further.

"Charlotte, what is fulfillment to you?" I sprang this question on a mini-skirted Canadian friend one day. "Marriage," she shot back, without hesitation.

We can take part in the arts three ways: by creating, performing, or appreciating, or, in varying degrees, by making some combination of them all. In the human order the arts run a gamut from the temporal effusions of the carnal mind to the eternal inspirations of the divine Mind, or God Himself.

The quest for fulfillment concerns everyone. In human terms fulfillment means many things to people—health, money, recognition.

The practice of Christian Science brings the greatest joy, the deepest satisfaction obtainable. My own experience is proof of this statement.