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One of the most comprehensive and challenging demands of the Science of being is the demand to become cognizant of who you genuinely are. To find yourself in this way means to find answers to many questions.

As soon as we see how the understanding of God we have gained through Christian Science has changed our lives —sometimes as dramatically as the way Christ Jesus changed the lives of those who came to him—we want to share. We want to attract people to Christian Science, to the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, we have joined, to the Sunday School, to the Reading Room, to the Bible, and Science and Health by Mrs.

The word "child" uniquely suggests a spectrum of personal memories—of beloved bears and tricycles, of living with brothers and sisters and of schools and houses—memories diffracted in the light of disappointments as well as joys. Each of us humanly is—or was—somebody's child, arriving innocent and then compelled into that mystery called "growing up.

The vocal solo that precedes the reading of the Lesson-Sermon In the Christian Science Quarterly . in a Christian Science Sunday service has a Christly purpose.

When we hear people speak of influenza, or the flu, "going around" through infection or contagion, we seldom remember that this disease, now traced by modern medicine to a virus, was once thought to result from the "influence" of the stars. But actually, how far advanced over this old superstition is the modern belief of a contagious influence? The fact is that neither the stars, a virus, nor any other so-called material agent can affect an individual adversely if he knows that God, divine Mind, is the only creator or cause.

Many of us have experienced from time to time that bleak feeling of deep loneliness, a sense of isolation from all with whom we would like to identify. We may have felt lonely in the middle of a crowded assembly; within a group of friends; in a cozy family circle, or even within a close-knit husband/wife relationship.

There is no eternal time any more than there is spiritual matter. Like Spirit and matter, eternity and time are opposites.

Religious conflict is as old as history, although it may seem to us to have increased alarmingly in recent years. Bloody revolutions and wars are being fought in efforts to enforce prescribed religions on dissenters.

"I've had a healing!" my friend exclaimed as we walked away from our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, after a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. He said that he'd felt impelled to come to church, even though he was suffering from a painful condition and had found it difficult to drive.

True peace comes when we realize that our real identity is indissolubly linked to God, the only creator. Recognizing this full measure of dependence upon our Father-Mother Love, we find ourselves uplifted to a grand awareness that man can never be separated from divine Mind's control.