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The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking, Unloosing bonds of all captivity. These words of a loved hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No.

When one has the high goal before his thought, his tasks are less arduous, his state of mind much happier and freer, and his accomplishments greater. Without this vision, work may become monotonous, boresome, mediocre, and perhaps finally a failure.

One who had suffered untold agonies from a feeling of inferiority was given this startling bit of counsel: "Always see yourself in the sunlight. " The words did nothing but mystify her, since the sunlight meant to her at that time only the light of solar beams.

One of mankind's most heart-rending afflictions is grief. In spite of human theorizing that time and circumstances can heal it, individuals have sometimes suffered its pangs for years.

" The divine Principle of man speaks through immortal sense," we read on page 72 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " On the same page its author, Mary Baker Eddy, says, "Not personal intercommunion but divine law is the communicator of truth, health, and harmony to earth and humanity.

Should we seem to fail in some worth-while undertaking, we may conclude that we have done all we can and that that is all God requires of us. Yet there is always one thing more which we can do.

Blow, winds of God awake and blow The mists of earth away! These beautiful lines are by the poet Whittier. According to the teachings of Christian Science, the mists of earth are the false beliefs, doctrines, and hypotheses based on a material sense of creation.

A momentous fact for all time is the truth that man is the son of God. His origin and existence are in divine Mind, Life, and Love.

What an inspiring incentive to prove the possibilities of infinite good is indicated in Mary Baker Eddy's sentence in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 428 ): "We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them with the life which is spiritual, not material.

Many today are saying: "I am so lonely and therefore unhappy. If only I could meet some people and make friends, then I know I should be happy.