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Demonstration is proof. Whatever is provable at any time is equally provable at this moment.

In Churches of Christ, Scientist, the reading of the Lesson-Sermon, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly , brings comfort and healing not only to the congregation but to the Readers as well. A Reader whose motive is service to God and man, whose whole heart is given to the Cause of Christian Science, knows that spiritual sense alone unfolds the inspiration necessary for his part in a right reading of these wonderful Lesson-Sermons; for it is through spiritual discernment that Truth is understood.

The world has never forgotten the goodness expressed by Jesus. This goodness stands as an example for all Christendom.

Bountiful blessings unfold from obedience to the divine will. We find examples of this throughout the Bible, such as the good results of the interpretation of Pharaoh's dream by Joseph; the experience of Moses and the Israelites who were fed with manna during their forty years in the wilderness; and the feeding of the five thousand by Christ Jesus.

Much of human life, its order and regulations, seems to be based on time. We read in Ecclesiastes ( 3:1,4 ), "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:.

For those endeavoring to demonstrate the healing power of Christian Science, it is important that a clear differentiation be made between the so-called healing processes of material elements and the metaphysical process of Christian Mind-healing. The word healing, as it is generally used by those unacquainted with Christian Science, implies a series of physical changes said to be induced by the material phenomena called nature or by the action of material elements one upon another.

In the ancient world the custom of giving one tenth of one's produce or property as an offering to Deity was almost universal. So it is not surprising that in his effort to arouse his people, who had grown careless, the prophet Malachi should have heard and voiced God's command ( 3:10 ), "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith.

When we think, talk, and pray we use the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, we, they, in their various forms, probably more often than almost any other class of words. Note how often you think and speak the personal pronouns, and you may be surprised at the place they have in your consciousness.

In spite of the Psalmist's declaration ( Ps. 118:24 ), "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it," many find it difficult to rise above the dull monotony of daily tasks and to be joyous.

From the time we awake in the morning to the time we retire at night, we are busy doing things and thinking about things. What we do and think is generally catalogued "daily activity.