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After one becomes interested in the teachings of Christian Science and begins to demonstrate its healing and regenerating power, he naturally looks forward to church membership as the next step of progress. Usually he is imbued with the happy feeling that the Christian Science church is the open door to finding heaven on earth.

Late one Wednesday afternoon a member of a Christian Science branch church entered her home feeling weary and burdened. She had experienced an unusually trying week and thought that it would be too much of an effort to attend church that evening.

The age-old question ( Gen. 4:9 ), "Am I my brother's keeper?" propounded by Cain in his own defense, has recurred periodically and frequently through the centuries.

Man has a glorious inheritance. How much we appreciate this gift depends upon the knowledge we have of our spiritual birthright.

In time of great conflict men reach out for a sure defense. They know that success, and even survival, depends upon the soundness of their protection and their ability to use it.

In her sermon "The People's Idea of God" ( p. 9 ) Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Christian Science has one faith, one Lord, one baptism; and this faith builds on Spirit, not matter; and this baptism is the purification of mind,—not an ablution of the body, but tears of repentance, an overflowing love, washing away the motives for sin; yea, it is love leaving self for God.

While I was gazing from the height of our ranch home down into the beautiful river valley, and beyond it to the mountains, the reality of the eternal now of spiritual vision—in contrast with the unreality of the human concepts of time, past, present, and future—was indelibly impressed upon my thought. The valley dwellers and travelers upon the winding roads far below had a limited range of vision.

It is often necessary to prove one's identity in order to carry out the simplest transactions in everyday experience. The correct receipt enables its possessor promptly to obtain checked merchandise or luggage or to secure his car from the parking lot.

Because they saw the wonderful healings that Christ Jesus performed, even the arrogant, materially-minded Pharisees sought to know how he performed these "miracles," as they called the healings. In reply to Nicodemus, one of their rulers, who came by night to learn more about these healings, Jesus said plainly ( John 3:6, 7 ): "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

When Christ Jesus told Nicodemus ( John 3:3 ), "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,"' very naturally the Pharisee was perplexed, because his concept of birth was wholly material. He had not grasped the fact that our Master was speaking from a spiritual standpoint.