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Do we enjoy challenges? Do we welcome each opportunity to prove that our Principle is God? To face fearlessly the anger and hatred of the carnal mind for Truth, and to demonstrate Truth in spite of opposition? Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, did.

There are times when we are tempted to feel inadequate, inferior, or unworthy. We may see ourselves as simply not good enough.

There was a time when I had a recurring physical difficulty that seemed to defy healing. In spite of all my efforts, there was little break in the cycle.

An "armour of light"? This phrase is used by Paul, the faithful and intrepid apostle of Christ Jesus, in his letter to the Romans. Yet we often think of armor as something much more solid and tangible, something that repels the projectiles of an enemy.

When I was about ten years old, it was normal for the Protestant Sunday School class I was attending to spend some of the class time at the regular church service. On one occasion I was stunned to hear the congregation, including myself, vehemently condemned as "miserable sinners.

They didn't even recognize him. They had seen him respond with tender affection to children, with stern rebuke to hypocrites, with healing compassion to those who were ill.

Students of Christian Science recognize that this Science of timeless reality has come to mankind as the result of divine law. They recognize, too, the fulfillment of Christ Jesus' prophecy—the coming of the Comforter—in the writing of Science and Health by Mrs.

I had been pondering the concept of fidelity to truth and wanted to be more faithful to the demands made on me as a Christian Scientist, when I came upon this sentence by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health as if for the first time: "Neither sympathy nor society should ever tempt us to cherish error in any form, and certainly we should not be error's advocate.

Probably no Christian Scientist of the time was better known to the public than was Alfred Farlow when he completed his service as the first Manager of the Committee on Publication for The Mother Church. The Boston Post, in announcing his retirement in 1914, said: "His influence upon the outside world has been stronger than even the Christian Scientists perhaps realize.

Mrs. Eddy has many good things to say about experienced Christian Scientists.