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A Church membership that is engaged in a building program can be likened in many ways to early pioneers blazing trails over the mountains. Problems may seem big, challenging, and endless; but when the hardy, persistent pioneer spirit is combined with the spiritual understanding of Truth and Love, victory is assured.

Many people become inured to a mental state of inertia and passivity because they are unwilling to take the initiative in the first place or because they tend to lose it whenever they encounter opposition or resistance. Others react to the moves of other people instead of acting positively themselves.

After a long, cold winter we rejoice at the first appearing of spring. As the days become warmer, fresh green color appears in the grass, on shrubs and trees; flowers begin to bloom; birds joyously sing.

Christian Scientists have much reason to be grateful for their periodicals. Many of them were led to look into Christian Science after taking from a literature distribution box a periodical placed there by a member of one of the branch Churches of Christ, Scientist.

Mrs. Eddy counsels in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

One thing that stood uppermost in Jesus' thought was the conviction that he was sent of God—that he was divinely appointed—and thus had the authority of God Himself for proclaiming the divinity of his mission. What a tensely dramatic moment was that when, after returning to Galilee from the wilderness where he had rejected the temptations of the devil, he entered the synagogue at Nazareth! In silent awe those present heard the blessed Master read from the book of the prophet Esaias these words ( Luke 4:18,19 ): "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Only good thoughts are real thoughts. Good thoughts come from God, divine Mind, and they express the great and good power of this one and only Mind.

Christian Science healing is always the appearing in varying degree of the Christ. It is the birth, the beginning, of a new experience, a new conception of the ever-present Christ, Truth, bringing to light man's status as God's beloved spiritual child.

Untimely drowsiness has deprived many an individual of the fruits of alertness and vigilance. Dozing when one should be awake and watching gives evidence that one has ceased exercising the divinely derived faculty of reason; that animal magnetism, whose action is always to draw thought away from the spiritual, has dulled and stupefied thought, effectively mesmerizing it against the joy of heavenly inspiration.

In a world where sufficient supply should be readily available to all, there are nevertheless those who suffer from lack. At the present time some progress is being made to eliminate poverty.