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Young people and those just beginning the study of Christian Science may be grateful and willing to acknowledge the efficacy of God's healing power when physical discomforts have been terminated, but they may feel that to begin to put into practice all the truths taught in Christian Science will cause them to walk a restricted, narrow path, one that will perhaps cause them to lose their present companions. Standing firm and abiding by the rules learned in the study of Christian Science may seem difficult because of the human desire to be loved, to be considered a good sport, or possibly because of the fear of being ridiculed or of being left out of social gatherings which from the point of view of the individual it seems necessary that he attend.

Joy is a quality of God, a spontaneous emanation of Him, which belongs to everyone and can be experienced now and forever. Christian Science teaches that all qualities of good are inherent in the divine Mind and belong to man as God's likeness.

Every power struggle we witness, explains this writer, is based on a false concept of power—power belonging to a person or thing, rather than to God alone. 

As Christian Scientists we often feel that we are walking on holy ground when we pause in humility to view the wisdom and Christly foresight our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, had in providing the Manual of The Mother Church to guide us in our human affairs. As church members we constantly look to the Manual for guidance in church government.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 60 ) we read that Mary Baker Eddy gave a Bible to a student "as a reward for the best paper on the spiritual significance of the first chapter of Genesis.

Just before being sent overseas during the Second World War, a young Christian Scientist talked to a Christian Science practitioner who had been his Sunday School teacher for several years. In discussing the experience the soldier was facing, the practitioner said to him, "Go wherever your duty calls you and do whatever is humanly necessary, but wherever you are—on a transport, in a bomber, during the midst of a battle—never enter into the illusion that hating, or any other evil, is real.

Every Christian Science treatment and every logical conclusion in the teaching of Christian Science is based on the fact stated so clearly by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 262 ): "Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence.

Christian Science teaches that true abundance characterizes the universal, indivisible ever-presence of God, good. Such abundance is spiritual.

Every clear and correct statement of eternal truth is a powerful statement. All of eternal truth is in and of God and manifests His power.

The spiritual facts of being are a present reality. Man's immortality and spirituality are actual because of his likeness to God.