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A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST went into her garden one sunny morning to examine a flowering shrub and found that it was completely covered with bees, their golden bodies moving rapidly from flower to flower. In the center of this mass of movement sat a colored butterfly with outspread wings, and although the bees climbed ceaselessly over its body in their determination to reach the flowers, the lovely creature was quite undisturbed.

JOHN'S Gospel (Chapters 5 and 8) records the sudden freeing of two individuals from strikingly different bondage. These liberated individuals—the man by the Bethesda pool, who had been crippled for thirty-eight years, and the woman taken in adultery—must have showed to Christ Jesus a willingness to leave their ways, for with characteristic helpfulness the Master blessed each of them with the solemn words, "Sin no more.

MRS. EDDY declares in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

WHAT joy Jesus must have experienced after he resisted the specious suggestions of evil! We read, "The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him" ( Matt. 4:11 ).

THE newcomer to Christian Science soon learns that to obtain the full benefit of the healing and harmony this religion has to offer he must learn to spiritualize thought, and he might well ask, "But how do I spiritualize thought?" In the first chapter of Genesis is recorded God's spiritual creation, perfect and complete. We read ( verse 31 ), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

SINCE World War II, there have been disturbing instances of the use of thought-control methods, whereby masses or individuals may be erroneously influenced. Christian Science teaches us to take positive steps to protect ourselves and others from any system of thought-control and to uphold righteous government.

MANY branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are concerned with the need of expanding and improving their accommodations. In one of these churches an inspirational meeting was held on the subject: Expansion versus Limitation.

PROBABLY all of us when perplexed have been approached by a sincerely intentioned well-wisher with the advice, "Don't take it all so much to heart!" Certainly we cannot help loving our friend for his desire to be encouraging. Is his counsel sound? Yes, if his words alert us to supplant mere human emotion with divine Mind's gifts of spiritual insight and intuition.

HEALING oneself through Christian Science is a practical means of speeding one's own success and well-being and at the same time contributing to the welfare of mankind. To heal oneself of disease, lack, sorrow, criticism, sensitiveness, and resentment, as well as of mistaken concepts of others, is to increase by that much the health, happiness, and success of home, community, and humanity.

WE learn in Christian Science that God is always demonstrably with those who are with Him. We must acknowledge Him as one Mind, one perfect cause, and identify ourselves as actually the inseparable effect of that cause.