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What would be thought of the academic student whose work in a course left much room for improvement and who paid only cursory attention to his textbooks? How well are we doing in the lifelong course of demonstrating our God-given spiritual being? Who among us would not admit that there is much room for improvement in his own experience? How well do we know and use our textbooks? Let not Christ Jesus' rebuke to the Sadducees, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God," Matt. 22:29; apply to the student of Christian Science.

Many of us have had the experience in childhood of being roused from a disturbing dream by the demands of our mother or father to wake up. Unselfish affection expressed in human parenthood stems from God, divine Love, our ever-present Father-Mother.

Mrs. Eddy writes, "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives this statement: "As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind.

The writers of the book of Proverbs pictured in poetry the nature of mankind: kindly and perverse, wise and foolish, friendly and hostile. To dispositional qualities they attributed a clear sequence of cause and effect.

Looking across a parched valley to an apparently lifeless mesa, a motorist remarked to his companion, "The poppies will never bloom again. " Hitherto, winter rain and a warm spring sun had transformed the mesa into a wonderland of brilliant orange poppies with a backdrop of multicolored cacti blossoms.

"What is thy name?" is a Bible question that is concerned not so much with nomenclature as with unfoldment of character, enlightenment, and understanding. It could mean: Have we named the name of Christ? Do we measure up to the standard demonstrated in the life of Christ Jesus? Are we putting off carnal beliefs and putting on spiritual understanding? Do we express the nature of him who is called "Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace"? Isa.

Through prayer and daily spiritualization of thought each of us can gain the awakened spiritual sense of God and man which Christ Jesus utilized. Then we shall prove man's imperishable continuity in our day-to-day lives.

One of his disciples said to Christ Jesus, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?" He replied: "I am the way, the truth, and the life.

What is the nature of matter? The behavior and properties of matter are subjects of intense inquiry by physicists. The more basic question of matter's place in ultimate reality is also the subject of inquiry by philosophers, theologians, and thinkers at many levels.