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Humanitarian motives spring from Christian ideals. Christlike qualities, such as benevolence, philanthropy, and brotherly love, enliven interest in the welfare of others, inspire men with generous impulses, and translate the ideals of Christian service into helpful deeds.

Many and varied were the human ills presented to Christ Jesus for healing during his three years' ministry on earth. The lame, halt, sick, and sinful sought his compassionate touch and gentle assurance, confident that their every ill would disappear in the light of the truth he lived and expressed.

Sight , as a faculty of divine Mind, our Father-Mother God, is spiritual. Man possesses this faculty through reflection.

The term "individuality" is of profound interest to the student of Christian Science, for he knows that it is solely by conscious individual beings that God, the creative Principle of the real universe, is expressed. Every demonstration of Christian Science is a restoration, in some degree, of true individuality, and a disappearance in corresponding degree of the false mortal sense of existence.

The ability to listen has long been extolled as one of the social graces. But above all human considerations the ability to discern the voice of Truth and listen to its utterances is essential to spiritual growth.

Man exists as idea in Mind. Just as all the rays are needed to reflect the sun, so all the ideas of Mind are necessary for Mind's full expression.

A Young student of Christian Science had become a member of a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, just before being inducted into the United States Army. At times when he was tired, cold, depressed, even hungry, and the temptation was incessant to admit the reality of evil, this soldier found that his church connection was both an anchor and a shield.

Sometimes our human progress is impeded by stumbling blocks of one kind or another, obstructions to finding the harmony for which we hope and pray. The obstruction may take the form of a long-standing sickness, or a sin to which we are prone to cling; or it may appear to be a person, place, or thing which stands in the way of the solution of a difficulty.

Christian Science defines God as divine, infinite, eternal, and omnipresent Principle, Mind, Life, Truth, Love, Spirit, Soul. By the use of these synonymous terms we discern more clearly the nature of God and what His infinite being includes.

In a world harassed by conflict and by economic and political insecurity, men and women by the thousand have willingly sacrificed their personal comfort, their careers, even their lives, to defend the ideals of Christianity and freedom. How vital, then, is the necessity for every man and woman in time of so-called peace to be alert and vigilant that these ideals may not be lost or imperiled.