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The prophet Isaiah indicated the universal appearing of the Christ, Truth, to human consciousness when he said ( 9:6 ), "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. " The birth of Christ Jesus typified this appearing.

The understanding of preexistence is vitally important to everyone, because a false sense of man's origin is the foundation of all discord, according to the teachings of Christian Science. This teaching reveals that the individuality and identity of man are based upon a self-existent divine Principle, God, and not on human conception or material birth.

Geriatrics is a much-discussed and publicized department of medicine dealing with old age and its seeming diseases. While recognizing the humanitarian motives for this study, Christian Scientists do not study error or disease in order to find its cause and to heal it.

The opportunities to learn spiritual lessons through Christian Science while in the Armed Forces can, if utilized, make one's military service a period of lasting accomplishment. These lessons may be applied to one's entire human experience with much gain.

Jesus was able to handle with authority whatever problems arose because he was always conscious of his unity with God. His understanding of man as God's perfect image brought the Christ, the spiritual idea of sonship, to bear on human consciousness, and the result was healing.

Every earnest student of Christian Science longs to overcome error in his life and to gain a clearer understanding of God and His Christ. The way to achieve this goal is made plain by Mrs.

" Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lose me instead of find me. " So writes Mrs.

Great joy and reward come from finding out by experience more of the meaning of familiar citations from the Scriptures and from Mrs. Eddy's writings.

We hear and read a great deal these days about the pressures of modern living. Medical science believes that these pressures are the cause of many malfunctions of the human body.

The student of the writings of Mrs. Eddy is sometimes startled to find how frequently she uses the combined expression, "sin, disease, and death.