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One college professor giving instruction in writing begins each new course with the challenging statement, "If you can think, you can learn to write. " A magazine editor, seeking new material to publish, tells prospective contributors, "It is the idea that counts.

Those who have been called upon to be Readers in our churches may rightfully be regarded as ambassadors of Truth. To give utterance to the Word of God which sets free the captives of sin, disease, and all trouble is a sacred task.

A Student of Christian Science was troubled with a problem that did not readily yield to the spiritual truth, which he had learned in Christian Science, that perfect God creates perfect man. He prayed earnestly that God would reveal to him the spiritual lesson he needed to learn and was led to study carefully the Lord's Prayer (Matt.

THE privilege of reading in a Christian Science church is a sacred one, for this is an important means by which the truth goes forth from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to heal and regenerate the human consciousness. Therefore, the selection of those persons best prepared to serve as Readers should be preceded by prayerful consideration on the part of each member of a branch church.

MAN is not a physical personality placed or displaced in a material world. He is the spiritual idea of the infinite Mind, God, forever embraced in that Mind.

CHURCH is spiritually defined in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 583 ), as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find this statement ( p. 518 ): "Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud.

WHEN a certain man addressed Jesus as "Good Master," the Master gently reproved him with these words ( Matt. 19: 17 ): "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

IN a message sent to a Christian Science branch church on the occasion of its dedication, our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 182, 183 ), "May this beloved church adhere to its tenets, abound in the righteousness of Love, honor the name of Christian Science, prove the practicality of perfection, and press on to the infinite uses of Christ's creed, namely, —'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

WHEN word was brought to Jesus that his friend Lazarus was sick, he said ( John 11:4 ), "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. " He gave no thought to what the demonstration of God's power might do to exalt himself as a human person.