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HOW very important to individual growth and progress in Christian Science is the spiritual understanding of the way in which the various absolute truths used in Science apply to one's human thinking! The importance of this is emphasized by Mrs. Eddy in these words in Miscellany ( p.

THE word "malpractice" came to my attention for the first time when I was attending a Christian Science lecture and overheard a young Sunday School pupil say to a friend, "Don't malpractice me!" The remark made humorously provoked questioning, but it was years before I grasped the implication of that quip. If Christian Science is to be rightly practiced, it is important to know what is meant by that word "malpractice," since malpractice is the counterfeit of real or right practice.

IN general mankind believes that man draws nearer to death with the passing of each year, indeed with the passing of each day and hour. This supposition is based on the belief that everything has a beginning and an ending, that everything is either coming or going, appearing or disappearing.

THERE was once a man whose vigorous efforts to re-establish pure monotheism among his countrymen resulted in his being bitterly persecuted by the reigning monarch of the land. This man, the prophet Elijah, had a high and Christly sense of God as the only power and presence.

This author shares helpful insights into how to pray about world affairs and events.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health ( Pref.

Proving for oneself the truth of being, namely that harmony, health, joy, substance are ever available, is accomplished through progressive transformation of thought. This transformation takes place as one rejects the false suggestions of fear, sickness, malice, and other material beliefs and acknowledges one's true selfhood as the child of God.

Do we as Christian Scientists take time enough to think about the transforming truths we learn from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy? At Sunday services and at Wednesday testimony meetings we listen to messages from these textbooks and feel that these selections are portions of the Word of Life.

The purpose of every activity in the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to spiritualize and redeem mankind. There is, then, nothing unimportant in the Order of Services, outlined by Mrs.

Today in spite of great advances in the fields of social, scholastic, and scientific endeavor, the individual is still confronted with the necessity of meeting needs basic to his happiness. Philosophers of the past and psychologists of the present have categorized these needs, then theorized as to what could be done about them.