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One of the fundamental points of Christian Science is that thought determines experience. Through prayerful study and demonstration, we find that if material beliefs are entertained, discord results; but if thought is based on the understanding of God as intelligence, Mind—the only consciousness—and of man as the spiritual reflection of Mind, harmony is experienced.

" Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord. " So we read in Isaiah ( 1:18 ).

What a wonderful thing it is to know that man is made in God's own image, that he is absolutely pure and sinless, yes, incapable of sin because he reflects only the qualities of God, his creator! We read in the Scriptures ( Job 33:4 ), "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. " One of the synonyms Mrs.

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.