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A mother who is a Christian Scientist seemed to have great difficulty getting her children up in the morning. She finally formed the habit of greeting them with this lively challenge: "Wake up, wake up, the world has need of you today!" Although it was spoken in fun, she gradually saw in it a spiritual message.

Human theories have been endeavoring for generations to explain causes and effects in, of, and as matter. However, since the discovery of Christian Science in 1866 by Mrs.

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.

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

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

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.