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To describe a person as a practical Christian is highest praise. We think immediately of one who communes with God and practices the spiritual knowledge gained.

While perusing a copy of the daily press a student of Christian Science began to read what appeared to be an ordinary newspaper article, only to discover that he was actually reading an advertisement for an automatic dishwashing machine. This ingeniously disguised advertisement bore the improbable title, "Where do your dreams go when you have woken up?" The query prompted a line of thought as follows: whether or not we are Christian Scientists, we know the answer to this question.

The many types of communication in the world of today make it necessary for one correctly to evaluate these messages in order to protect one's thinking and behavior. A good example of how to do this was given by Christ Jesus.

Christian Science reveals the naturalness of good. Mankind, generally speaking, have accepted quite an opposite condition as natural.

Here are the opening words of the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

Included in the prophet Ezekiel's record of the vision of God that came to him is this lovely description ( 1:28 ): "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

Mankind long for stability, but in the main they just do not know where or how to find it. Because stability originates in God, divine Principle, this desirable quality can be attained only as the human heart turns its search Godward and ceases looking to matter for what it does not possess and therefore cannot impart.

A Great achievement in history has been the orbiting of a human being around the globe in a capsule with unthwarted speed, precision, control, and safety. Far greater, however, is the gaining of the spiritual, or metaphysical, sense of orbit.

Inscribed on one side of the Boston Public Library are these words: "The Commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty. " It is natural that one should wish to be well educated, and many young persons work diligently to win scholarships to colleges, while others have the means to attend schools of higher learning with little financial effort.

This statement by Mrs. Eddy appears on page 281 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "Divine Science contradicts the corporeal senses, rebukes mortal belief, and asks: What is the Ego, whence its origin and what its destiny?" In the next paragraph our Leader gives us the answer to this great question: "The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things.