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"Reason," Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health , "is the most active human faculty.

Regardless of your occupation, the best contribution you can make is scientifically to establish that all right activity is the practical showing forth of an unfolding spiritual idea. Fundamental to this effort is the recognition that success, in the truest sense of that word, is the result of our growth Spiritward.

A couple of years ago, after receiving a letter in which I had voiced some discouragement, a friend answered with a simple but wonderful statement. "We must," he wrote, "admit what is possible.

A love of Church and a willingness to serve it follow naturally from a growing understanding of God and our relationship to Him. Many are happy to attend church services regularly and to love and learn the great spiritual truths from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs.

There are various ways to attend church, but we are most blessed when we find a way to take an active part in the service. I learned this when I began attending the Sunday morning service of my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, after many years of teaching in the Sunday School.

The thinking of the world is largely centered on the human body, its health, beauty, weight, and physical condition. Don't we all feel we need a better understanding of the true nature of body? What actually is body? In Christian Science we learn that because God is Spirit, His entire creation must be spiritual.

As a new bride in an unfamiliar town, I was longing for more companionship and activity. This I found when I joined the small branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in the community.

When I was just out of Sunday School and a fledgling worker in my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, a former Sunday School teacher told me something that had happened in our church years earlier. Her mother, who from all accounts was wonderfully compassionate and wise, was working in the Christian Science Reading Room one day when a poor woman came in.

Is your Christian Science Students Association meeting a date reserved on your calendar? How grateful every class-taught student of Christian Science can be for this special day! It is more than just a happy occasion, as it promises a renewal of the essence of class teaching. Attending the association meeting is a privilege no student can afford to miss.

Writing the hundreds of religious articles published each year in the Christian Science periodicals is one of the privileges and duties that Mrs. Eddy has assigned to students of Christian Science.