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It is fortunate that all of us have the ability to resist evil. This ability can be developed into a capacity useful in human life as we find the spiritual basis for true resistance.

The thing that we are all most interested in is being. From the verb "to be" or I am, being is conscious experience, and what concerns us more than this? Throughout eternity all that can ever exist or be, so far as we are concerned, is our own conscious experience, for that which is not included in consciousness is not included in experience.

THE high goal before every Christian Scientist is that of instantaneous healing. It is our deep longing and earnest prayer that we may, as the outcome of our study and practice of the teachings of Christian Science, attain to those heights of spiritual discernment where healing takes place naturally and spontaneously.

THERE is no guesswork about cooking if one carefully follows the instructions given in the cookbook. One reads them over, assembles all the necessary ingredients, obediently takes each step as outlined, trusting the experience of those who have previously tested the recipe, and then confidently awaits a satisfactory result.

IN the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus said: "Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? .

WHEN an accident happened in the presence of the Apostle Paul, he resorted to divine metaphysics, not to physics. It will be recalled that a young man named Eutychus, having fallen asleep during a long talk by Paul, fell from a third-story window and was taken up dead.

OFTENTIMES people view with amazement the poise and assurance maintained by students of Christian Science under extreme hardships. This fearless attitude is occasionally interpreted by onlookers as optimism.

IT is the general opinion of mankind that perfection is an ideal state of being to be sought after or hoped for only in some far-off, indeterminate time or place. But Christ Jesus did not speak of perfection as a mere future possibility.

WHO that has breathed the exhilarating air of the mountains or the salty freshness of the sea has not felt lifted above worldly troubles and pettiness? But higher than the mountains and broader than the sea is the infinite presence of divine Spirit, whose pervading atmosphere speaks of the peace of God and the comfort of Love. Indeed, the ever-available atmosphere of Spirit is more liberating and satisfying than its counterpart in nature can be.

ON one occasion Peter and John instantaneously healed a man who had been lame from birth. For this good deed they were haled before the council, consisting of the high priest, the rulers, elders, and scribes, who, "when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men,.