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Have you a problem which seems reluctant to yield to Christian Science treatment? Have you seen fellow students struggling with tenacious error and needing intelligent encouragement? Then think back to the disciples who were unsuccessful in healing the lunatic boy, as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel. To them Jesus gave a most heartening and encouraging lesson in faith.

The word spontaneity has a ring of joyous freedom—unlabored, effortless, and unrestricted. True spontaneity springs from the heart, like the spontaneity of a smile.

Throughout the ages men have engaged in garnering and dispensing the fragrance of flowers and spices. Householders have treasured their rose jars, filled with the spicy essence of sweet petals, and perfumers have built up a world-wide business in fragrances of all types.

There is no higher calling upon earth than to be a Christian Scientist. There is no greater demand upon the Christian Scientist than that he live the teachings of this Science.

Worldly wisdom often insists that opportunity knocks but once at everyone's door. But worldly concepts are based upon finite reasoning and are always limiting and wholly erroneous.

Soon after Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science, she wrote her first and most important book on this subject, "Science and Health. "' To this title she later added the words "with Key to the Scriptures.

Returning to his native town of Nazareth, Jesus once entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day. Luke records that he "stood up for to read.

When an edifice of a Church of Christ, Scientist, is built in a community it offers its members a wonderful opportunity for growth. In the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy we find these arresting words ( p.

Students of Christian Science are learning to enjoy more and more of the fruits of disciplined thinking manifested in health, congenial activity, and ample supply, in harmonious relations with others, and in the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding" ( Phil. 4:7 ).

" If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter," writes Mary Baker Eddy on pages 260 and 261 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Who that has experienced many of the discords of the flesh would deny the truth of this statement? The physical senses affirm this testimony and mesmerically insist that in the physical body is precisely where the difficulty exists.