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" Living within one's income" is highly commendable; but unless supported by the understanding of what constitutes true being, living within a specified financial income is likely to be attended by a sense of anxiety and frustration. Christian Science has brought to humanity the absolute knowledge of God and man that reveals an income as unlimited as is one's present receptivity to spiritual ideas, and this understanding heals specific evidences of insufficiency and lack.

It has been said that "the kind of God we worship determines the kind of world we inhabit. " Surely, then, it can be conceded that a right concept of Deity is of vital importance to humanity.

A young student of Christian Science who had worked for a long time to see the nothingness of what appeared to be a large and unsightly wart that covered the end of one of her fingers, began to feel discouraged and even irritated. One day she was on the point of indulging one of these unhappy moods when, as simply as the sunlight falls, came the clear realization: there is no wart there because a wart has not any cause.

The basic truth of being is the unity of God and man. This spiritual unity ensures man's inseparability from good in its unlimited manifestations.

Animal magnetism is a term frequently used in the study and practice of Christian Science. But it was not invented by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

It is certain that each individual must enter the kingdom of heaven through his own efforts; no one can take the responsibility for him. Jesus proved this amply, and from the age of twelve years we find him looking only to his Father for guidance and support, assuming his responsibilities before doctors of the law, yet willingly returning to his home and being subject to his home discipline until further demands were made upon him.

The more a student of Christian Science studies the life and works of Mary Baker Eddy the more convinced he becomes that every activity of the Church which she founded and every By-Law which she incorporated in the Church Manual has a deep significance. While we may participate in the activities of The Mother Church, and perceive that all the By-Laws of the Manual are important to the welfare and progress of our Cause, yet only as we grow in experience do we begin to glimpse their spiritual significance.

The thoughts which men think determine their lives. To recognize this is essential, but it is not sufficient.

" There are none friendless, none afraid," one of the hymns in the Christian Science Hymnal joyously assures us. These words lilting through consciousness awakened a student of Christian Science the morning she was to set forth alone for the first time in her experience on a journey from the east coast to the Pacific and back again.

As the young student of Christian Science gains a fuller vision of the perfection of being, and is brought face to face with the demands of becoming a follower of Christ, he may feel discouraged, believing that he is not able to measure up to the high standard. He may think that he has certain faults of which he cannot rid himself, or that he has been guilty on some past occasion of an unworthy act.