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Most of us have asked at some time, "Is Christianity really practical?" The answer given by Christian Science is a most emphatic, Yes! Christ Jesus obviously considered his teachings to be practical. When John the Baptist once sent two of his disciples to ask Jesus the question ( Matt.

Many years ago a Christian Science practitioner said to the writer, "A child of God must be not only healthy, virtuous, intelligent, happy, and successful, but also beautiful. " The writer did not understand this statement at the time, for she believed beauty to be merely an outward characteristic, in no way essential to one's practice of religion and having nothing to do with a child of God.

For all mankind there comes a time for each one to acknowledge his right to rest and to claim it. Where does rest lie? What is it? When is it to be mine? How may I attain that rest which is my divine right? These are some of the questions which mankind often ask.

Daily to become increasingly aware of the true meaning of Church is a wonderful experience. To some new students of Christian Science, church is simply a house of worship, where those who study Christian Science attend Sunday services and Wednesday meetings.

One of the great assurances of Christian Science is that those who have learned to know God as the source of all that is good can no more lose anything that is good and enduring than they can be separated from God. "It is impossible that man should lose aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 302 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Christian Science affirms that home is a divine idea expressing the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, good. Home is not a material, localized dwelling place apart from man, but rather is it a heavenly state of consciousness which man, God's spiritual image and likeness, includes.

One of the greatest problems mankind has to solve is the sense of limitation. Limitation is a mistaken belief of a selfhood apart from God.

How wonderful it is on waking in the morning to turn our first thoughts to God—away from the erroneous evidence of the material senses to the true, unchanging, spiritual facts of scientific being as taught in Christian Science. Mortals have a tendency to ask upon awaking, "How am I this morning?" Perhaps the answer is that one did not sleep well, that he feels grumpy and tired.

" Behold , I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" ( Rev. 3:20 ).

In the spiritual record of creation we find this summary of completeness ( Gen. 2:1 ): "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.