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An editor of an agricultural publication was asked to prepare a presentation of promotional material by adapting an idea competitors had used. When the presentation was finished, the other editors and some of the advertisers thought it was good.

What is my responsibility as a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist? What are my duties, my privileges, my obligations? The important word to consider in these questions is the seemingly insignificant one, "my. " In examining our thoughts about church membership and church progress, we may find we have been prone to believe that problems and lack of progress are due to shortcomings on the part of some of the other church members.

Dear to the heart of the Christian is God's unchangeableness. We read in the Bible, "He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

A man once gathered together his friends and spoke to them on the subject of life and happiness. He loved these friends, and because he himself knew the way that leads to a fruitful and happy life, he wanted to share this knowledge with those he loved.

It is recorded in the Bible that after Christ Jesus had delivered what has since been called the Sermon on the Mount, "the people were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. " Matt.

People everywhere are laboring under the conviction that substance is finite and that it appears as a part of life only during the span of earthly existence. This limited view stems from the belief that substance is material rather than spiritual.

Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gives specific instructions for the healing work in Christian Science.

Perhaps no one subject presents so much interest to mankind as that of everlasting life. One of the great blessings that has come to us through the revelation of Christian Science is the knowledge and certainty that Life, being God, is eternal, and that man is ever the full, complete, and perfect expression of eternal Life.

Do we, by suffering pain in body or in mind, honor God? No, for whatever calls our attention to the body, to matter and materiality, dishonors God by making us believe in gods many and minds many, in good and evil, in Spirit and matter, in health and sickness. The belief that suffering is God's means for punishing us perpetually for specific sins committed in youth or in some later period of life is a remnant of outgrown scholastic theology.

Christian Scientists study the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy and endeavor to obey its provisions fully and faithfully.