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Every alert student of Christian Science is aware that if he has a sense of monotony in connection with his affairs, he needs to meet the condition within his own thinking; for it is primarily his own concept of his affairs that needs to be changed. Sometimes evil suggestions or wrong thoughts are allowed to shadow the highest and purest desires and ideals, thereby robbing the student of inspiration and joy and leaving in their place weariness and discouragement.

How frequently we are told in articles on beauty and in advertisements of cosmetics on radio or television programs that the use of perfume is a necessary part of good grooming. Perfume, according to sales propaganda, is a key to one's character, as well as a subtle purveyor of charm.

" Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. " These words of Zophar's, recorded in the book of Job ( Chapter 11, verse 17 ), have meaning only when life is seen as originating in God, the source of eternal existence, rather than in frail human parentage.

One definition of "acme" is "the top or highest point; the culmination. " Christian Science is the ultimate, the culmination of Christianity, because it teaches scientifically how to live a Christian life.

The Apostle Paul wrote the Colossians that he prayed for them that they "might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness" ( 1:10, 11 ). In the first chapter of ( Gal.

Goodness is the only real protection from the world's evil. Where love of God, good, impels our thoughts and action, we open the way for protection beyond the ability of fallible material means to bestow.

Many people keep a record of their forthcoming engagements, and sometimes they add afterwards a commentary, setting down their impressions of these events. The record of human events is of interest to the student of Christian Science, but he is more concerned with the unfoldment of spiritual ideas than with the history of material events as such.

Probably every intelligent individual ponders the following questions: What is the reason or justification for my existence on earth? and, Must I die in order to be released from the trials and tribulations of this world, and to find harmony? In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 486 ): "Earth's preparatory school must be improved to the utmost.

In the Bible is the familiar account of Moses' appearance before Pharaoh and of Moses' demand that the children of Israel be released from the slavery to which they had been subjected for many years. Moses had been reluctant to undertake this mission but had been divinely shown that he must do it and that he could do it.

Mortals are educated to believe that their happiness and enjoyment of life are, in a large measure, dependent on the five physical senses. The faculty of hearing, for instance, is considered necessary in order that mortals may more easily conduct their daily affairs, quickly communicate with their friends, and be aware of essential sounds.