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NOT long ago at a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Christian Science church, a young woman stated that for a time she did not get the inspiration from Christian Science that she previously had. Upon searching her thought to find out what was wrong, she realized that although she had been reading the periodicals faithfully and attending church regularly, she had been studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly only once or twice a week.

SPIRITUAL discernment is the perception of reality, of that which is true about God, man, and the universe. It exists wholly apart from the material senses.

THE evangelist Luke tells us that Jesus on one of his journeys arrived in a certain village, and there was received in the house of Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. Mary sat at his feet and listened to him, while Martha was "cumbered about much serving.

HEALING in Christian Science is evidence of the coming of the Christ to human consciousness. It is the Christ that unveils the great fact of being that Life is God, Spirit, the infinite Mind conceiving man, its spiritual idea, in its own perfect likeness.

RUGGED mountains silhouetted in blue against a copper sky held the rapt attention of a mother and her two young sons. A wake of froth and swooping sea gulls followed a white ship out of the bay.

IN the first chapter of Genesis, God is revealed as the only creator. In the same chapter man is declared to be made in God's image, reflecting His dominion over all the earth.

TO awaken to the spiritual fact that man is God's image and likeness, and that the universe is created and controlled by God is the great need of today. Mortal mind claims to present a world of confusion, fear, and distress.

WHAT joy familiar landmarks bring to the traveler returning home as happy memories surge into his thought! The homeward-bound mariner nearing port with his precious cargo-laden ship is happy when he sights a well-known object, because that welcome view means journey's end of a successful mission. Our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," cites the real and progress-making landmarks of Science.

A MOTHER sat beside the bed on which lay her small daughter. The child had a high fever, and the illness seemed to be something very serious.

Would you like to help cure divisiveness? Start by seeing that there’s one infinite cause and one infinite effect.