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The Biblical account of Jesus' birth is brief. No narrative, however, is more universally cherished by Christians than the story of the Nativity.

Referring to the launching of the satellite Telstar, Queen Elizabeth II, in her annual message to Britain and the Commonwealth, said, "Now we can all say the world is my neighbor, and it is only in serving one another that we can reach for the stars. " How important it is to recognize the world as our neighbor and to see how its people individually and collectively can best be served! Centuries ago a Teacher whose life made on the world the greatest impress ever known told a simple story illustrating what it means to be a neighbor.

Two of the highly prized possessions of mankind are the faculties of sight and hearing. It is sad that along with gratitude for these faculties, there is the feeling that sight and hearing are subject to matter, or mortal mind, which has the power to rob an individual of them.

Universal salvation begins with the individual. Christian Science awakens human consciousness and reveals to the receptive thought man's identification with the perfection which is the exact image of God.

In her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," Mrs. Eddy writes ( p.

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.