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Great deeds need great preparations. Surely the giving of a Christian Science lecture by a Church of Christ, Scientist, is the sharing of God's healing truth.

Paul's advice was to pray without ceasing. Unceasing prayer means to recognize God's perfection and man as His likeness; to be conscious of life instead of death, health in place of sickness, honesty rather than dishonesty; to discern good in ourselves and others; and to reject evil.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes reference to the subject of this article in a Bible Lesson beginning on page 185 of her book "Miscellaneous Writings. " She takes as her text a passage from I Corinthians ( 15:45 ): "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Deliverance from evil has ever been a prayer of the human heart. Fear of evil and pleasure in sin have seemed to enslave mankind, but the advent of Christianity brought a joyous way of freedom from evil.

In the midst of a heavy fog at sea a Christian Scientist in command of a small ship gained spiritual inspiration by observing the compass. Despite the lack of visibility the navigator was still able to maintain the ship's true course because of the unvarying attraction of the compass needle to the magnetic pole.

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.