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What is more heartening in times of trouble than the love of an understanding friend? How much more assuring it is to know that divine Love is always present to protect us and guide us safely through every human experience! How secure we feel knowing there is never an instant when Love is not expressed and manifested by God's true likeness, man! Great peace and joy and achievement come from understanding and reflecting Love. Our spiritually inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p.

Friendship , as an idea of Mind, is one of God's precious gifts to His children. It is eternal, unchangeable, sparkling with the reflected light of perfect Love.

Despite the chaotic state in which the world would seem to have engulfed itself, thousands of men and women all over the globe are living examples of the fact that one may be in the world but not of it. They have learned where to turn for help; they are realizing that there is no problem incapable of solution when the correct rule has been found and applied.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 400 ), "By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error.

In the present state of human affairs the idea of compensation seems to be expressed through a monetary system of appropriations and counterbalances. War's aftermath, or "second mowing," growing out of delusive hopes, greed, selfishness, and disregard for the rights of others, has yielded a scant and unprofitable harvest.

In a well-known parable recorded by Luke, Christ Jesus describes how "a certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. " Today, the voice of the Comforter may be heard bidding humankind to leave the cares of materiality, come to the feast prepared by divine Love, and find satisfying sustenance in the goodness of spiritual being.

True Christianity is of the heart. It is the planting of God.

In these days of conflicting mental forces, when experimental forms of government are everywhere at war with established customs, it is of paramount importance to understand that there is a divine law, which transcends human frailty, and which can be invoked in the interests of human welfare. In the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p.

A song in the night! One thinks of night as darkness, stillness, inactivity; and song is associated with gladness, joy, thanksgiving. Yet it is a song in the night that often awakens one to light, beauty, and peace.

On page 583 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy defines "Church" in part as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.