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To the writer, composer, artist, indeed, to anyone engaged in creative activity, the term "composition" means the arranging of words, notes, outline, color, and so on, to express an idea. Such an idea appears in human consciousness and assumes form as it unfolds or develops.

When we listen to a newscast, do we as Christian Scientists remember and perform our duty to mankind by letting divine Love alone govern our thinking? Do we at such times defend ourselves against aggressive mental suggestion? Do we watch and pray that we be not influenced erroneously? One might ask if it would not be simpler to avoid listening to newscasts altogether and thereby shut out evil suggestions. However, it is of prime importance that the individual Christian Scientist be well informed.

Would it not be wise for each one to ask himself the question, "What seest thou" ( Zech. 4:2 )? This question is a test of mental self-knowledge.

The Science of being furnishes the interpretation of God, divine Principle, to mankind. All the understanding we have of infinity, eternity, reality, comes to us through Christian Science.

The Bible teaches and Christian Science confirms the importance of righteous judgment toward ourselves and others. Such judgment has a practical value in our daily lives and produces numerous blessings.

Why do some individuals express an abundance of intelligence while others are deficient in this quality? This is a question that has puzzled people for ever so long. Businessmen and educators are constantly trying out new tests designed to measure the intellectual capacities of their employees and students.

" In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you," commanded Paul in a letter to a small band of converts living in what is now Saloniki, Greece. "Quench not the Spirit.

Our sympathies must be correctly based if we would further world peace and contribute our best efforts to mankind's moral and spiritual betterment. A right sense of sympathy is always in agreement with divine Principle.

Where can we find the moral courage to face up to our problems? We can find it in deep humility—the consciousness that God is the only Ego, that it is God who empowers us with His own qualities, and that the physical body and mortal personality are merely a false, passing sense of our eternal divine identities as sons of God. When Moses was wavering before the greatness of the task before him, God reassured him with these words ( Ex.

In the New Testament we read of a prophecy that was made at the time of Isaiah and was currently being fulfilled. In his Gospel, Matthew words the prophecy thus ( 1:23 ): "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.