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Each of us, at various times in his life, probably asks himself the questions: "Where am I going? What do I really desire?" Mrs. Eddy points out the value of such appraisal and writes in Science and Health ( p.

A Great deal of our time is spent in the endeavor to please others—employers, relatives, or friends. But too often personal advantage is the motivating force of these efforts, and therefore they lack the spiritual afflatus which accompanies unselfed labor.

At a show in a planetarium, the lecturer spoke of how very little matter a comet contains. He concluded by saying that the substance in a comet is "as near to nothing as anything can be while it still remains something.

The Church of Christ, Scientist, by its very name makes far-reaching demands upon its members. To exemplify that which is implicit in this name, the membership must love, live, and prove the Christ-power and Christ Science as taught and demonstrated by Jesus.

Throughout the Scriptures the fact of the allness of God, good, shines as a guiding star leading us out of the false, illusive belief that there is a power opposed to God and into the understanding that the realm of the real is spiritual. In our search for Truth it is imperative that we acknowledge and accept the fundamental fact of God's allness and goodness.

If we accept the basic proposition of Christian Science that, as Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 468 ), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all," then we can never believe that Mind and its manifestation, man, are without purpose.

MOST people have an earnest desire to act and to feel poised and confident. To mankind, however, confidence is generally something which is obtained only after years of experience and education.

TO many individuals certain seasons of the year give them a happier feeling than do others. A season, perhaps fall or winter, may remind them of the passing of time, of darkness or decline.

ONE day when Christ Jesus was with his disciples in Caesarea Philippi, he asked them this penetrating question ( Matt. 16:15 ): "Whom say ye that I am?" Peter's answer, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," showed the Master that he had not preached the gospel of the kingdom of heaven in vain.

IN the business world one often hears such expressions as, "I must work for a living," or, "If my business doesn't improve, I won't be able to make a living. " The fact that the words "business" and "living" are so closely associated in thought emphasizes the precarious state of one who believes that his livelihood is always at the mercy of fluctuating business trends.