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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.

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.

After their safe passage through the Red Sea, the Hebrews wholeheartedly joined with Moses in expressing gratitude in a triumphant paean of victory. True, they hailed the Lord as "a man of war," whose "right hand.

The story of David, the shepherd lad, who subdued the giant, Goliath, is an incident of courage almost unparalleled in Bible history. Never for a moment did this gallant youth of Israel hesitate to meet the dreaded giant of Gath, because he knew that the "battle" was not his, but the "Lord's" ( I Sam.

The way to really see Yosemite National Park," said the Ranger Naturalist , "is to get off the roads and hike! A glorious panorama of the whole valley may be seen by taking Four-Mile Trail to Glacier Point tomorrow. " As the writer and other park visitors began the more than three-thousand-foot climb, aggressive thoughts suggesting that she should turn back kept coming to her.

Thoughts are active mental forces which mold and fashion our daily experiences, manage our relationships, and bring either harmony or inharmony to the body. Thinking—the art of selecting, entertaining, and utilizing thoughts—guides every endeavor to a successful culmination according to the degree of the Rightness of the thoughts entertained and utilized.

Would you like to have the unfailing support of a spiritual staff, as well as a rod of defense against evil? It is encouraging to know, through the teachings of Christian Science, that God has given us a staff and a rod and also makes it possible for them to become a scepter. In Biblical times shepherds carried a staff and a rod in their work of tending the flocks.