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Christian Science reveals to human consciousness that since Life is God, Spirit, it must be self-existent, without beginning and without ending. The moment we begin to perceive that Life is Spirit, and that now we are living in a spiritually created, indestructible universe, the fear of age, incapacity, decrepitude, or any loss of faculties, begins to abate.

Christian Science students, after experiencing physical healing, naturally desire to apply the teachings of Christian Science to the problems which confront them in their business or social and domestic relationships. In so doing they may encounter trials which, if they fail not, will both strengthen their faith and increase their understanding of the laws through which the divine Mind expresses itself.

Christian Science is so easily understood that children accept it readily, but to the thought educated in the complexities of the material counterfeit of Truth, this very simplicity arouses doubt. The pride which comes from thinking that we are independent mortal beings, apart from God, finds it difficult to accept the humility whereby one realizes man's oneness with God, and the dependence on Him which this fact engenders.

What a source of comfort and inspiration are our Christian Science Wednesday testimony meetings, providing, as they do, a refuge for those who desire to withdraw from what may seem the monotonous tasks of daily routine! The weary wanderer, searching for rest, peace, and health, may cry in the words of Job, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" He is assured that the answer to his query has been found when he listens to the inspiring testimonies given in Christian Science churches. Frequently, individuals paying their first visit to one of these meetings, have found therein the way of surcease from their troubles, renewed courage, and beautiful physical healing.

Every earnest student of Christian Science constantly strives for a clearer realization of the Christ. An exalted state of thought cannot be gained, however, by passively wishing for it, by feeble effort, or intermittent devotion to the study of the Bible and of our Leader's writings.

Through the study of Christian Science, the Science of infinite good, many are being liberated from the bonds of fear, and are enjoying God's infinite, ever-present goodness. How often are decisions made difficult, and how often are right motives restrained, by fear! How often men are deprived of the better things of life—protection, success, health, happiness, and plenty—because of fear! How often, too, things perhaps long feared never occur! Having learned that fear—lack of true courage—is a perplexing handicap, and learning also that one who reflects God is capable of mastering whatever is not good, who would not rightly resist fear? For scientifically to resist fear and master it adds to the success of right business transactions and ventures, dissolves discord and disease, and replaces poverty with plenty.

As Christian Scientists, we are valuable to our church to the extent that we humbly and sincerely strive to overcome a false sense of self, purify consciousness, and exercise spiritual love. Every Christian Science church should be as a rainbow to the community, a bow of promise spanning the dark clouds of materialism.

It is recorded in Luke's Gospel that besides his twelve disciples, Christ Jesus appointed seventy others to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God, and specifically instructed them to heal the sick. It is also stated that they returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

The Science of Christianity would be of little use if its adherents could not stand the test which the dawn of Truth inevitably brings to the human consciousness. The more quickly the student is ascending above the dream of life in matter the more numerous may be his tests.

To the man who called him "Good Master" Jesus said, "There is none good but one, that is, God;" and the Bible also states that "God is no respecter of persons. " These truths, that God alone is good and the source of all good, and that He provides an infinitude of good for all His ideas, are essential in the practice of Christian Science.