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A young friend said that she wasn't sure she fully understood the statement by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science.

According to an old saying, no chain is stronger than its weakest link. Whether applied to walls around medieval towns or to modern international organizations, the saying implies that alertness is necessary to detect any defective links and to strengthen or replace them.

An infuriated mob had thrust Christ Jesus out of their city, taken him to the brow of a hill, and planned to cast him down to his doom. He'd shared spiritual insights with them in the synagogue, they'd become offended—perhaps because their lack of spirituality had been exposed—and they sought to solve their own inadequacy by killing him.

Many people derive simple enjoyment and innocent pleasure from watching or participating in athletics. We can also look to such activities for hints on how to confront difficulties and challenges in a way that can further our spiritual progress in Christian Science.

Divine Love calls each of us to relinquish the belief that we or someone we love exists in matter and that death can take away life. Through prayer we can replace this belief with the fact of man's uninterrupted spiritual existence as God's likeness.

When we are healed through Christian Science treatment, we may find that the effects extend into the past. That is, our sense of having been susceptible to illness is diminished and we gain a vibrant conviction that we have always been free.

This Earth Day, we can think about the spiritual concepts related to nature and Earth, and how God is an ever-present power.

"If beset with misguided emotions," Mrs. Eddy writes, "we shall be stranded on the quicksands of worldly commotion, and practically come short of the wisdom requisite for teaching and demonstrating the victory over self and sin.

Christian Science shows that because every Bible story presents the Word of God in action, each story has continuous application beyond and above its original historical setting. Divine Mind, God, is the interpreter as the various Bible verses speak to diverse states of human thought, some states more enlightened than others.

For me, as a child being brought up in a traditional Christian denomination deeply entrenched in Calvinistic beliefs about the sinfulness of man, life seemed to be like a towering mountain, its sides covered with soap. One climbed—or rather crawled—a few steps up and.