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THE truth of the unity of God and man is readily recognized through logical reasoning. However, if this recognition is not accompanied by a spiritual understanding of God's presence and by the power to heal, it may remain nothing more than an intellectual abstraction.

IN studying the Scriptures and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, students of Christian Science find it important to differentiate between the absolute facts of being, which are unchanging and eternal, and the relative statements, which apply only to the human state we seem to be living in.

THE tremendous technological advances accomplished by physical science have brought mankind into an age of atomic power and missiles and possible trips to the moon. Earthbound beliefs are being eliminated.

ONE who had seen much of life and who had thought a great deal concerning God's love was taking a walk with his grandson. It was a day in the winter, and the snow began to fall.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest— It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

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.