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Is discipline harsh punishment for misdemeanors, or is the objective that of frightening a child into refraining from future misdeeds? Or is discipline, as the original meaning of the word implies, training and practice in proper behavior? In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy throws light on the subject of discipline when she writes, "The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease" ( p.

A Sense of frustration often accompanies a failure to understand man's identity as the image and likeness of God. Anyone who accepts a limited, material concept of man may experience frustration.

Every member of a Church of Christ, Scientist, has felt in some way the healing power of Christian Science. All earnest students have the ability to demonstrate this healing power.

We are all inclined to place the blame for our problems on someone or something other than ourselves. This is sometimes where it belongs, but even in such instances, Christian Science offers this most comforting thought: the remedy or solution to all our problems can be found as we apply the truth taught by Christian Science to our own thinking.

It is the desire of all active, good thinkers to help with the problems that confront mankind. More and more people are praying for the unerring divine guidance that will lead them and stand by them through the many far-reaching decisions that it is necessary for them to make.

On one occasion Jesus called a little child to him and said to his disciples, "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" ( Matt. 18:3 ).

The first part of the definition of "Church" in the Glossary of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy reads: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" ( p.

For many years economists have labored under the belief that mortal thinking must move in series and that it must repeat itself. Like the cyclical movements of the stars and planets, mankind is supposed to act inevitably in repetitive ways which include both good and evil.

St. James tells us that patience must have her perfect work.

WE sometimes hear it said about someone with a difficulty of any sort, "It is his problem!" Apparently the speaker is unaware that his flippant remark evinces on his part a lack of spiritual understanding and of charity. His remark points to a failure to appraise the divinely intended brotherhood of the large family of men.