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The study of Christian Science fosters a natural desire to serve the Church of Christ, Scientist. Opportunities to gratify this desire are provided as our concept of Church and its activity is spiritualized.

In Christian Science growing up may be considered as growing upward, as ascending in thought, and as increasing in the understanding of one's higher nature. This higher nature, the Christ, knows no birth, maturity, or decay, but forever expresses the qualities of God, unchanging Life, Truth, and Love.

Who has not had at some time in his experience an inward intuition or inspiration that has given him courage in time of great stress, or pointed unerringly to the right human step, which has protected and delivered him from evil? Of course some may not recognize the angelic nature of these holy messages, but one who has felt this warmth of spiritual love in his heart has come to know the unfolding of an angel thought of God in human consciousness. In all ages the angels of God's presence have silenced the whispering suggestions of evil and have destroyed and annulled these fraudulent and delusive claims.

" You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God. " These words of Mary Baker Eddy's in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Yearning to understand the truth of all things, human thought has for centuries probed the vast unknown with what it calls the scientific method. The desire for dominion over every adverse circumstance has inspired a stupendous human labor which has built the whole great body of the physical sciences.

Affection for good, for Truth, and for Love opens wide the gateway of thought through which the understanding of Christian Science can be received. Quiet inner ardor for the things of Spirit offers a permanent abiding place within our hearts for the truth of God and man.

If , as the Christmas season approaches, thoughts of pressure and haste try to crowd out our consciousness of good will and peace, of completeness and health, we have but to remember and follow the lessons of faith in the story of Jesus' nativity. When first the angel thought came to Mary to tell her that she was to be the mother of Jesus, she was troubled and asked how that could be.

One day Christ Jesus sat beside Jacob's well when a Samaritan woman came to draw water. He said to her ( John 4:7 ), "Give me to drink.

The Gospel of John records that Jesus, having driven the money-changers out of the temple at Jerusalem, said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. " That he did not refer to a structure of stone and wood is clearly seen in the explanation which John gave, "But he spake of the temple of his body.

" Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 17 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1902. Let us consider together what conscious worth is and why it alone can satisfy the hungry heart.