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People unacquainted with Christian Science may ask how it is possible for material conditions to be changed by spiritual thinking and how a body, generally thought to be material, can be healed by spiritual means. Indeed the use of the word "miracle," implying an occurrence contrary to natural law or the usual order of events, for spiritual healing implies widespread disbelief in the possibility of control by thought over what most people believe to be material.

How grateful we are when we hear people testify that they were helped when they turned to God in time of need! But why wait for some specific need? Are we not always in need? If the power of God is adequate to the solution of specific needs, why not recognize this power as the power which animates our every thought and deed in everyday experience? The recognition of God as the only power will lift our experience out of the depths of human suffering into the health and joy of existence as the expression of divine Life. And this is the expression of divine Life, heaven on earth.

To mortal sense human existence consists of birth, growth, maturity, decline, and death. When we accept Christian Science and the wonderful truths of God and man, which it teaches, we begin to grasp the marvelous facts of true existence, of God as Life eternal and of man as the immortal expression of that Life.

Going to church is an enriching activity. By attending regularly both the Sunday services and the Wednesday testimony meetings members of Churches of Christ, Scientist, have the privilege of taking part in this activity and are blessed immeasurably.

What goal, what line of progress is nearest our hearts today? And how are we preparing ourselves to achieve it? As he presses toward some chosen destination every Christian Scientist needs to ask himself these questions. True progress, as revealed by Christian Science, is the yielding of the human to the divine.

At harvest time the farmer gathers the fruits of the growing season. Sometimes the harvest is enriching and satisfying; and sometimes it is slight and disappointing.

Enthusiasm for the revelation that God, the all-loving Mind, is man's only real consciousness impels the Christian Scientist to live his gratitude and praise. With joy he affirms with the Psalmist ( Ps.

Two Christian Scientists elected by their fellow members to serve their branch church as Readers agreed with each other that they would keep the joy of their offices constantly in view. Immediately they discovered that this would not be difficult.

In a notice to correspondents, Mrs. Eddy made it quite clear that, however much she desired to do so, she had not the time to read all her correspondence, much less reply to it.

Some people yearn to be as free as the birds, the stars, or the open sea. But Jesus' words indicate a greater magnitude of freedom, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" ( John 8:32 ).