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Spiritual preparedness is the groundwork of all genuine achievement. This preparedness is gained through prayerful communion with God and consecration to good.

In order to understand what we mean by church attendance in Christian Science, it is necessary to understand what we mean by "church. " Mrs.

As wisdom unfolded to her, Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was divinely inspired to take each step that would ensure the permanence of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the availability of the pure, unadulterated message of Christian Science.

What does it really mean to guard one's thinking? How can one successfully select thoughts only from God? Is it really necessary for one to challenge every thought presented to him? Such questions as these are sometimes asked the Christian Scientist. Guarding one's thinking is an activity which we are called upon to do every minute of every day.

The prophet Isaiah voiced God's declaration of His own allness ( 44:6 ), "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. " The great fact that God is All-in-all underlies the First Commandment and is the foundation upon which Christ Jesus' teachings and demonstrations rest.

Influences play an important part in human experience, and much of education and human progress depends upon the proper selection and utilization of these influences. Wholesome and constructive influences that come through the social agencies for enlightenment and education, through the media of communication, and through daily contacts with associates and-friends are welcomed and appreciated by most of us.

" Wist ye not," Jesus said, "that I must be about my Father's business?" ( Luke 2:49, ) Do all of us, both men and women, who go daily about the duties of living and of making a living, know what our true and only business is? Mrs. Eddy has given us in the Manual of The Mother Church a remarkable statement on alertness, which it is the privilege of all Christian Scientists to ponder during their business day.

We read in the Bible that when the Holy Ghost descended on the followers of Christ Jesus on the Day of Pentecost, "every man heard them speak in his own language" ( Acts 2:6 ). Those who had gathered to listen asked one another in amazement, "How hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" Under the marginal heading "Pentecost repeated," Mrs.

When Christ Jesus declared ( John 6:63 ), "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life," he made a separation between the flesh and Spirit, thus emphasizing that true life is not in matter or the flesh, but in Spirit and in Truth, which he embodied. Mrs.

It is recorded in the twenty-second chapter of Matthew that a lawyer asked Christ Jesus which of the commandments in the law was the greatest. Jesus replied in substance that to love God supremely was the first and great commandment.