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During a trying business experience, when it seemed as though intimidation were being used to force her to submit to certain conditions, a Christian Scientist was greatly helped by the admonition, "Maintain your poise!" Considered humanly, poise may be an acquired trait which helps one meet the vicissitudes of mortal existence with composure. This sense of poise, based upon education and training, is at best superficial.

Some years ago there appeared in The Atlantic Monthly a charming essay entitled "Home to Him's Muvver," in which the author said that a three years old child always ended her tales of amazing adventures with these words: "An' him went home to him's muvver. " This child in her baby way expressed the natural seeking by the human heart for comfort and security from its uncertainties and perplexities.

Many times while waiting my turn at the tee of a golf course I have heard the exclamation, "What a beautiful follow-through!" This spontaneous admiration is voiced for the skill and accuracy of the player's stroke which enable him to keep out of the traps that are a part of every well-planned golf course. When students of Christian Science take their stand for Principle at the start of an experience and follow through with firm adherence to Truth, they too gain added spiritual power in the divine inspiration they receive, the force and accuracy of which carry them over many of the traps that are a part of mortal existence.

Many young people today need the comfort and joy which Christian Science brings through the truth it reveals of divine motherhood. Some of these young people are faced with war's bereavements and dislocations.

In certain old folk tales trouble is always knocking at the door of the householder. Each time it comes in a different guise, the wolf in the costume of a lamb, the witch in a charming mask.

The plumb line, or plummet, is a weighted line used by the builder to determine verticality—uprightness. That which is out of plumb is out of true.

Christ Jesus taught and preached for three years only; yet in this brief period he was able to teach the everlasting unity of God and man and to demonstrate this fact in the healing of sin and disease. His words and works have been and will continue to be emulated throughout the centuries by all his enlightened and faithful followers.

A Gifted minister was once asked to explain how he held the attention of his audience. "First," he said, "I light a match, and then I build a bridge.

One of humanity's chief needs is to realize the infinite source and scope of intelligence, and Christian Science is meeting this need. Countless individuals have been and are being freed from the meshes of inadequacy, iniquity, and insanity, through the spiritual understanding of the perfection of God and His perfect man—perfect divine Mind and its perfect divine idea.

God, Spirit, who created all, comprehends all to be as spiritual and perfect as He made it. The harmony and perfection of man, the expression of God, is intact, unopposable, and everlastingly evident.