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Christianity as Jesus taught and demonstrated it was a religion of joy, a daily way of life that lifted the thought in praise and gladness, healing sickness and sin and overcoming every type of human difficulty. We find the Master admonishing his followers to weep not, to be of good cheer, to rejoice, to he glad.

Almost everyone at some time is faced with the suggestion of having been separated from a loved one, and the human sense of loss may seem very real and almost insurmountable. If we have been inclined to look primarily upon human associations for our joy and happiness, this experience may force us into spiritual growth.

What great evidence of newness bursts forth in the springtime! Then all nature awakens to express the beauty and loveliness for which it was created. The reality of Life is seen in such affluence, as to sweep away all appearance, of decay and death.

The student of Christian Science strives daily to learn more of the infinite goodness, power, and presence of God. Because of, and in proportion to, his awareness of the perfection of God's creation, which constitutes all reality, he is alert to the claims of good's supposititious opposite, evil, and aware of its utter nothingness.

A demonstration of Christian Science in the healing of sickness and discord or in the fulfillment of a long-awaited, joy-bringing event is a sacred experience. Whether the individual need is instantaneous healing or a step-by-step process of orderly and harmonious development, each demonstration signifies a clearer unfoldment of God's omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience, thus proving the redeeming Christ-mission of Christian Science.

Scientific healing prayer in Christian Science, or what is termed a Christian Science treatment, is the bearing witness to the truth of being in one's consciousness. It is communing with God in the calm and clear realization of Immanuel, "God with us," knowing and proving that which is divinely real.

The absolute or infinite spiritual sense of being which is set forth in Christian Science is not an abstract theory, but the most powerful regenerative and healing agent that can enter human experience. We must understand it as such.

Abraham , mighty patriarch of early Bible times, has throughout the ages typified fidelity. His was a stanch and unyielding faith in God's promises.

" Christian Science is dawning upon a material age. " Mary Baker Eddy makes this simple yet far-reaching statement on page 546 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Among the many inspired sayings of St. John perhaps the most profound is the simple declaration found in one of his epistles ( I John 4:16 ), "God is love.