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Let us examine the verb "compel. " It is derived from the Latin word compellere , meaning "to drive together.

In the Bible we find an instance of dedicating a child to the service of God at an early age. Hannah said of her son Samuel ( I Sam.

Human existence becomes progressively happier, healthier, and more profitable as one gains a clearer understanding of divine Love and willingly obeys God's laws. Christian Science elucidates the Biblical statement, "God is love" ( I John 4:8 ).

In order to be a scientist in any field, one needs to think from a scientific standpoint. If he thinks in unsystematized, lawless, or inexact terms, he cannot practice science.

In the opening lines of the chapter entitled "Creation" in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says ( p.

In this modern world there are many helpful ways and means afforded by government, business, and private individuals to provide some form of insurance for individual future needs. Some people who are unable to avail themselves of such measures are disheartened because they feel that they are denied provision for their advancing years.

"Our Lord and Master left to us the following sayings as living lights in our darkness: 'What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch' ( Mark 13:37; ) and, 'If the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. ' ( Luke 12:39.

Every absolute truth which is understood, every spiritual idea which is cherished, every thought of divine Love which is entertained, must have its correlative manifestation to the human senses as an improved belief or as a healing wrought by the revelation of the Word, known today as divine Science. In a message to the members of the Christian Science church in Concord, New Hampshire, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, included this arresting statement: "Christian Science healing is 'the Spirit and the bride,'—the Word and the wedding of this Word to all human thought and action,—that says: Come, and I will give thee rest, peace, health, holiness" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

ACCORDING to human thought, one view of compensation is the substituting of something desirable for something that is undesirable or unattainable. Thus it is believed that a struggle with a sense of inferiority may, under certain circumstances, lead one to self-improvement.

WE often use the words "a student of Christian Science" in referring to ourselves or to another individual. In view of the frequent use of these words, let us consider the depth of meaning contained in them so that we may not use them lightly.