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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.

TO humanity, in general, existence seems to be a round of material events; Christian Science, with irrefutable proof, reveals true existence to be spiritual. This Science presents a clear distinction between so called material, or mortal, man and the real man, the manifestation of God.

MARY BAKER EDDY, who discovered Christian Science nearly a century ago, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 21 ), "As the ages advance in spirituality, Christian Science will be seen to depart from the trend of other Christian denominations in no wise except by increase of spirituality.

ACCORDING to Christian Science, man's identity is spiritual. Man is the reflection of Mind and can no more conform to a so-called mentality other than that of the divine than can a reflection in a mirror conform to an object not in front of the mirror.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals and proclaims man's unity with God. Because God made man in His image and likeness, man must be the expression of God's being.

JESUS did not employ the pseudo force, called evil, to combat evil; rather he employed the power of good, which ultimately proved its complete supremacy to an extent which had not previously been exampled on the human scene. The pressure brought to bear upon him was beyond anything the human senses had been called upon to withstand.