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INDIVIDUALS at one time or another and for one reason or another are apt to make resolutions for better actions. Often, as in the parable of the sower related by the Master, many of these resolutions fall by the wayside or, as Jesus picturesquely described it, wither away because they have no root or are choked by thorns (see Matt.

IN "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes ( p. 21 ), "It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man's real existence, and the dream has no place in the Science of being.

In his poem "The Chapel of the Hermits," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, Through the harsh noises of our day A low, sweet prelude finds its way. The Psalmist must have glimpsed the way, for he wrote of God as saying ( Ps.

Many Christian Scientists, working and praying steadfastly through a seemingly long night of discord, have finally reached the summit of sweet assurance that all was well, even though to the material senses the evidence of healing had not appeared. Clinging to the uplifted consciousness of the perfection of God and of man, His spiritual image and likeness, these Christian Scientists have shortly thereafter seen the discordant physical symptoms dissolve and the harmonious facts of health become established.

Is there a situation in our lives that has never been resolved, a difficulty that has never been cleared up? If so, let us face it with decisiveness and apply the spiritual laws of Truth that will heal it! To solve any problem that is disturbing us, we must use the intelligence with which God, the divine Mind, has endowed His creation. Christian Science shows us how to deal with the perplexities of daily life in the way that will bring about their harmonious adjustment.

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes many helpful and inspiring thoughts on the subject of age and the fallacy of measuring and limiting life by a span of years.

As one studies the accounts in the Bible of the healings which were brought about as the direct result of the understanding which Christ Jesus possessed of the spiritual nature of man and as one notes his immediate reversal of the evidence which the material senses continually presented to him, one realizes that denial of the claim that there is intelligence in matter is of the utmost importance before the truth can be demonstrated. "We undo the statements of error by reversing them," asserts Mrs.

Christian Science is a religion of continuing joy. It recognizes that joy is spiritual and that it derives its strength from eternal Mind, God, rather than from human emotions.

Materialism would attempt to entice our young people into ways which are foreign to their spiritually pure thought. But worldliness cannot invade their thought premises if they are adequately protected against the subtle invasion of evil, or animal magnetism.

On one of the programs in the series, "How Christian Science Heals," a woman said in effect that after she had read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, it seemed as if a veil had been drawn aside from her thought.