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A recent survey on religion revealed that far too many people, due to their lack of knowledge of Christian Science, believe it to be primarily a substitute for medicine. When asked what they thought about Christian Scientists, their frequent reply was that these are the people who do not consult doctors when they are sick.

David and Jonathan shared a friendship still proverbial for its beauty, strength, and permanence. Apparently they first met following David's triumphant mastery over Goliath, proved on the basis that "the battle is the Lord's" ( I Sam.

In the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy we find the following By-Law: "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind.

One of the most beautiful promises in the Bible is found in Malachi: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. " Mal.

A college professor once said to his class that on a certain November day in 1863 his grandfather had stood on a Pennsylvania battlefield close to the speakers' platform where the sixteenth President of the United States of America uttered a few brief but immortal sentences. The grandfather told his grandson that Abraham Lincoln had emphasized the end of his Gettysburg Address thus: "That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A generation ago the cut of a practical person could still be acceptably described by such a homily as Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life," whose author rallied himself from deep depression with the challenge: Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! How does a supersensible, "Let's face it" outlook on life fare today? Many people repudiate it. Influenced by matter's self-avowed matter-of-factness, the investigations and advances of science and technology, and by their own inclinations to believe and trust physical evidence, they argue that "Let's face it" has changed in meaning and emphasis.

The frequent use of the word sedative in the world today challenges the thoughtful. Often the expected result of a material sedative is the coming of sleep, of temporary forgetfulness of some undesirable sensation or circumstance.

For many of us it may be difficult to decide which night of the week is the most important. It may be the night we spend with friends or attend a town meeting.

Some of the more persistent problems of human existence stem from the false belief that man has a human ego. Christian Science reveals Ego as God.

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "The eternal Elohim includes the forever universe.