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For those who are looking to God, divine Mind, for healing—and who are learning of the mental nature of human experience—it's simply impractical to ignore larger trends of thought in the sciences. Terms like genetics and DNA may sound distant and specialized to many of us.

The World Service of The Christian Science Monitor I am a 19-year-old [listener], brought up in India, and at present working in the marketing field. I have been following your station lately and found your programs quite interesting and new.

The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in acknowledging the remarkable progress in church growth made by her early students in the Chicago area, made this comment: "A great sanity, a mighty something buried in the depths of the unseen, has wrought a resurrection among you, and has leaped into living love. "   The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Most of us can probably recall occasions—on the world scene or in our community—in which an individual's firmness in standing for what was right helped him or her to surmount adamant opposition. Being firm in one's stand for the spiritual reality of God and man is important in Christian Science treatment, too.

Years ago a friend and I were having a dialogue in which I was the student and she was very much the instructor. She was drilling me on the battle gear of a Christian, on the basic armor spoken of in the Bible.

The sign covered a shop window: "Pre-opening clearance today. " There might be times when, like the owner of that shop, we want to make a clearance even before we get started on something new! The clearance, however, is often not simply of unwanted objects but of nagging thoughts that keep troubles clinging tightly to us.

"Economy" sounds so theoretical to most people, but it isn't theoretical at all when we think of it in terms of earning a living, providing for a family, and thinking about the future. What does "economy" mean to most of us? Is it that good is limited—that there isn't enough good to go around? Since we know that God is good, would that mean that there isn't enough of God to go around? Such a concept of economy couldn't come from God, for God is infinite Mind, and in infinite Mind are infinite—spiritual—ideas.

Spiritual healing isn't a thing of the past. It's happening today.

Have you ever wondered why, despite advancements in scientific technology, there seems to be so much less advancement in man's humanity toward his fellowman? War, cruelty, injustice, moral blindness, seem as prevalent today as thousands of years ago. We can get to the moon, but we can't get along with our neighbor! Yet one of the most basic teachings of Christianity is to love one's neighbor as oneself.

Academic communities and spiritual possibilities There's much in a college experience that broadens our capabilities, expands our view of ourselves and the world. But there's also much in the academic world that would seek to define us—to establish the limits of what we can accomplish, intellectually and physically.