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To become a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is a great privilege. Membership is a step that unfolds naturally in the upward trend of one's experience after one becomes an earnest student of Christian Science.

Damascus is situated about sixty miles from the coast .

Damascus lies like an oasis on the edge of a great desert. It is as much the gift of the river Abana as Egypt is of the Nile.

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.