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In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we find a rule that demands the earnest and prayerful consideration of every conscientious Christian Scientist.

What is the line of demarcation between appropriate boldness and bragging, true humility and self-depreciation, modesty and timidity? To most of us the answer probably does not come all at once. More probably after many trials and experiences we arrive at a correct estimate of the permissible and desirable, on the one hand, and of the hurtful and damaging, on the other.

Probably most people at some time have longed for a positive means of guidance. It is so much easier, one may think, to want to follow the right course than to know what it is.

True progress comes as the Science of Christ enables human consciousness to distinguish between that which is true and of God and that which is true and of God and that which is false and not of God. Mrs.

The fundamental elements of spiritual healing, which were revealed to Mrs. Eddy following her healing in 1866 of a physical condition pronounced by competent medical opinion to be incurable and probably fatal, the result of an accidental fall on the ice, were used by her throughout the remainder of her courageous and selfless life of unremitting and tireless energy in presenting her discovery to the world.

" How old are you?" There are times when an individual feels thwarted if this question has to be answered according to human belief. The young often wish to be older, and the old younger! Mankind have accepted the evidence of advancing years as something that cannot be avoided, and death as a way out of the situation.

The world is in a general upheaval today politically, socially, educationally, and economically. Frustration, unrest, insecurity, the misunderstandings between men and nations, are all augmented by fear.

In her book "Unity of Good," Mrs. Eddy writes: "Rising above the false, to the true evidence of Life, is the resurrection that takes hold of eternal Truth" ( pp.

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy points out a historical illustration of the effects of a reluctance to change thought and accept new findings.

While temporal lights burn bright at yuletide, the Christ-message is always ready with incomparable illumination to brighten the hearts and homes of humanity. With peace, power, and activity the Christ, God's spiritual ideal, is present to inspire the thinking of all mankind and to illumine their lives with heavenly joys.