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True beauty is spiritual loveliness and is inherent in all real being. To human perception beauty shines through people, through birds and animals, trees and flowers, hills and valleys.

An evangelist recently said that the first Christians lived in times as difficult as our own. He added that they did not say, "See what the world is coming to," but rather, "See what has come to the world!" The mighty message brought to the people of the first Christian century by Christ Jesus appealed to his followers as a thrilling and universal answer to all the world's troubles.

It has been proved that Christian Science heals hopelessness and sadness. Because it can be applied to the solution of all difficulties, it brings confidence and joy.

Mind , not matter, is the source and substance of supply. This vital fact is demonstrable, as the Bible records show.

Paul exhorted his followers, "Pray without ceasing" ( I Thess. 5:17 ).

The essential dignity and worth of the individual are an integral part of the message of Christianity. It is significant that this individual worth is the thing which error in all its varying forms attempts to deny.

Referring to our Master's complete and glorious victory over the mortal sense of life, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 494 ): "Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great a work as the Messiah's was done for himself or for God, who needed no help from Jesus' example to preserve the eternal harmony? But mortals did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them.

Perhaps one of the greatest of the many great healing truths revealed by the Scriptures is that there are not gods many. God, the Scriptures reveal, must be and is one because He is infinite, the All-in-all.

There are two questions which deserve primal consideration. The individual alone can answer them aright.

A Christian Scientist had long enjoyed an almost uniform sense of good health, which he attributed to his understanding, gained through Christian Science, of God as the only Life, and which he took very much for granted; but the time came when he found it necessary to establish his sense of health on the sure foundation of Christianly scientific demonstration. The aggressive mental suggestions poured into thought: Your health has been undermined, you have lost your health, you may not recover, and so on.