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A Christian Science testimony meeting is usually characterized by a sense of joy, quiet efficiency, harmony, and peace. It appears to have nothing in common with the clamor and confusion, the excitement and danger, of the horse yard on the large Australian outback cattle runs.

Even if it is a challenge, the experience of rearing a family should be a happy one. Thoughtful parents who are students of Christian Science will recognize from the moment an infant joins the family that it is a responsibility for as long as it needs care and guidance and that the ability to guide and care faithfully for the child comes from their understanding of God's parenthood.

Our human experience is a constant sifting of what is thought to be worthwhile from that which is thought to be worthless. Our own estimation of anything determines for us its value.

According to Christian Science, the first chapter of Genesis presents God as Spirit and His creation in all its beauty, harmony, glory, and spiritual perfection. Spiritual perception enables us to see that the entire universe moves in perfect accord with the infinite law of Spirit.

When things were the darkest and the continuity of the Union seemed to be in the balance, Abraham Lincoln possessed unfailing courage and patience. His secret was indeed simple.

Be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, .

Christian Science teaches that God is Mind. Since God is All, then Mind is All, and there can be no other mind.

As a rule we think of self-satisfaction as an undesirable, unattractive human quality—detached, complacent; but there is a real self-satisfaction that is most commendable, a satisfaction that is divinely perfect and purely legitimate. It is that self-satisfaction that comes to us by degrees in exact proportion as we waken to our true spiritual selfhood, our divinely reflected individuality, man in God's image and likeness, as the Scriptures describe him.

The cry, "I can never believe in God again!" has been wrung from many whose world has seemed to collapse about them. When tragedy strikes us personally, or when we are faced with a national disaster, such anguish is understandable only if we believe God to be the cause of the evil or if we believe Him to be unwilling or unable to avert it.

Have you ever thought what a joyous thing song is? Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 ( p. 2 ), "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work—work—work—watch and pray.