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In the material world, gravitation is conceived as a force manifested in the attraction or acceleration of material bodies toward each other. But the material world is a false or counterfeit sense of creation.

I eat breakfast each morning by a window. Precisely at the same time every morning a large jet airliner crosses the sky, always in the same direction.

One beautiful afternoon I put on my radio headset and went for a run through the hills behind our neighborhood. As I passed by houses and fields, I marveled at how the bright sun illumined flowers and accented the landscape, and how the pine trees, scattered high up along a ridge, looked like sentinels silhouetted against an azure sky.

During the week following the September Global Lecture Preparatory Meeting members of The Christian Science Board of Directors, as well as the chairman and Vice-Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, participated in sixty teleconference calls with group of hosts from meeting sites around the world. Calls lasted approximately one hour each.

Jesus knew the Scriptures of his day. It wasn't unusual for him to answer questions, in response to critics and followers alike, by echoing the words of Old Testament prophets.

No two seasons, no two summers or springs, are ever just the same. An annual meeting of the Christian Science Students Association in which we may be a member is individually distinguished, too; as unique as the particular season in which it falls.

We can all come up with reasons for not attending church services: weather, distance, family functions, work, fatigue, illness, classes. But do we have reasons for attending? Is attendance at church merely a habit? Might it be that we should attend because we're new in town and looking for friends and companionship? Or seeking a date or business contact? Why attend church at all? A psalm says, "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

The life of Christ Jesus offers an undeniable example of fidelity to his God-appointed mission. In unwavering fidelity to his mission of unveiling God's perfect creation for the salvation of mankind, he performed unparalleled healings and overcame death for others and for himself.

During a turbulent and quite frightening period in my life when I was struggling with a problem which, while not personal in focus, was very troublesome, I began to ask myself why such a challenge had come. And I found great help in a Bible account included in the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly.

Christ Jesus told his followers: "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.