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CHRIST JESUS once proclaimed to his hearers a most profound truth, the true meaning of which has not always been clearly understood by Christian thinkers. He said ( John 17:3 ), "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Testimonies of healing of the appetite for tobacco and alcohol are frequently given at Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches and in the Christian Science periodicals. Christian Science not only destroys false appetites; it protects one from acquiring them.

A BOOKKEEPER by making a survey of his accounts at the end of each month proves that they are well kept and in perfect balance. This survey is called "taking a trial balance.

Christian science has brought to men an infallible means of so uniting thought with the truth of spiritual being that they can demonstrate that progress is an ever-operative law of God. Christian Scientists are learning that because man is eternally the image and likeness of God, he does not advance toward a state of well-being and completeness.

The children of men wander down strange and devious ways in an effort to find happiness. Like Ponce de León, the Spanish explorer who hunted through trackless Florida wastelands for the mythical fountain of youth, so mortals explore the wastelands of materiality in search of the wellspring of joy.

It is related in the thirteenth chapter of I Chronicles that King David at one time during his reign made preparations for the ark to be brought from Kirjathjearim to Jerusalem. The accustomed method of carrying the ark was to have it borne by certain priests of the Levites.

HOW can we prove good to be real in our experience? By giving it activity and expression in our thinking and in our life. This is what is meant by the realization of good.

To anyone tempted to feel burdened by the seemingly heavy demands made upon him in these fast moving times, Christian Science speaks with tender, divinely intelligent persuasion, bidding him look up and recognize that God's demands come first in importance and that obedience to them makes the yoke easy and the burden light. For Christian Science teaches mankind to exchange the bondage of materiality for the freedom of spirituality, the false sense of living for the true.

The foundational truth of Christian Science, that God, good, is infinite and absolute, supports within itself the conclusive evidence that man and all things real have their origin, existence, and continuity in Him and nowhere else. At the same time this truth establishes scientifically that evil, or error, is impossible in this infinity of good.

Aging is death in slow motion. The human sense of existence accepts it without questioning, even as this sense believes death to be unavoidable and final.