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With most of us our days as little children with our human fathers and mothers still remain in our hearts—a grateful memory. We recall how they cared for us in our infancy, guided and shaped our character as we grew, and stood by us during the storm and stress of our later years.

Be yourself! How often we have used that expression to chide someone for not acting like himself! To anyone sick, poverty-stricken, sin-laden, or unhappy, Christian Science says with deep and wonderful significance, Be yourself!. To one unenlightened in the spiritual truths which Christian Science teaches, the statement may at first be startling and puzzling.

Industry is a correlative of greatness. Great men and women have ever been great workers, not only in their own interests but in those of humanity.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes ( p. 451 ), "If our hopes and affections are spiritual, they come from above, not from beneath, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit.

The teaching of the youngest children in the Christian Science Sunday School is a blessed privilege. The teacher is entrusted with the feeding of these lambs, who are largely untouched by material education.

In the sequel to his epic poem "Paradise Lost" John Milton ascribes the recovery of man's primal state of bliss to "one man's firm obedience fully tried. " Basing his imagery on the Bible account of Christ Jesus' temptation in the wilderness, the poet declares that Paradise was regained when one man proved evil to be powerless.

Would you be on the side of God's law at all times—the law that upholds your divine right to manifest health, intelligence, useful activity, and joyous accomplishment? It is the precious privilege of men and nations to know and to obey spiritual law that the power of infinite good may be enlisted in their behalf. Christian Science is a heaven-sent revelation of the availability and inviolate authority of divine law, to which all men may turn for protection of their rights and their God-given heritage of freedom.

To every individual, Christian Science must be a discovery. In this it differs from all other discoveries.

When the rich man addressed him as "Good Master," Jesus immediately said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God" ( Matt. 19:16, 17 ), thus directing thought away from the concept of good as personal and restricted to the oneness of good, its ever-presence, ever-availability, indivisibility, and inexhaustibility.

In the study and practice of their religion, Christian Scientists become not only selective as regards their thinking, but discriminating in the use of words. Our vocabularies are enlarged and refined as we study the words and imbibe the meaning of the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.