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Christmas! Shouldn't that one word fill our hearts with joyous anticipation and deep gratitude? The Christmas season is an opportunity to commemorate the effectiveness of the ever-present Christ, the true, spiritual idea of God. To the individual who understands this it brings an expectancy of unfolding good.

Mrs. Eddy thus describes the transforming power of gratitude: "What is gratitude but a powerful camera obscura , a thing focusing light where love, memory, and all within the human heart is present to manifest light.

Everyone experiences at some time a particularly pressing or important need and is faced with the task of seeking its fulfillment. If the answer is sought through the usual material channels, the chance of a satisfactory solution to the problem may seem remote or impossible.

When Christ Jesus comforted his disciples with the words, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you," john 14:27; he surely must have referred to the power of Love, God, to confer a peace that is more than the mere tranquillity of a material sense of things. His many exhortations to love one's brother indicate that this peace consists of the confident awareness that the power of divine Love, which always governed his thought and motivated his acts, is forever with us all in every generation to guide and protect us.

Every student of Christian Science entertains a deep desire to obey the Ten Commandments. But in order to remain true to these directives given by God to Moses many centuries ago for the guidance of the children of Israel, it is necessary to guard our consciousness diligently against the encroachments of false beliefs.

To build understandingly for a noble purpose is architecture in its highest sense. To state clearly the purpose or function of something is, to the receptive thought, to describe the outcome.

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.