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Service on the executive board of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, provides many opportunities for humility. Humility doesn't mean belittling oneself or the post of board member.

Is there someone in your family that you're not speaking to? Perhaps you long to heal the estrangement, but you just really don't know how or where to begin. Centuries ago the Master, Christ Jesus, presented the way for healing any discordant human relationship.

What are we seeking through prayer? What are we striving to demonstrate? These questions require deep soul-searching to be effectively answered. Are we praying for a job, or one that will provide more money? Perhaps we're seeking a buyer for a house that has been on the market for some time? A happier marriage? Better health? Relief from a personal relationship problem? Whatever our desires, whatever we may be wrestling with, wouldn't it be wise and downright practical for us to put our main effort on demonstrating the goodness of God in our lives and love for one another? With such a priority we would be conforming to Christ Jesus' loving counsel "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Christian Science restores health to the sick, satisfies the lonely, and answers the human need. But spiritual healing is not just a matter of improved material circumstances.

Humanly analyzed, some individuals could be classified as "leaners" and others as "self-reliant. " But no matter what our human tendency has been, each of us needs to evaluate his concept of dependency, not once but frequently, in order to take increasingly progressive steps toward permanent security.

Is music in church contributing to a quickened sense of our Christian mission? To a higher demonstration of health and harmony? It will when we see it as our own individual expression of praise to God. Not that we have to personally perform all or any of the music.

If the love among us seems to be changeable and fleeting, we can be sure this is because we must express more of the Christ-love. This Christly affection tells us to love even if others seem to be cold and full of hate.

The sleepy-looking cartoon character rises from his breakfast table and mumbles, "And now, having satisfied one hundred per cent of my daily requirements, I am returning to bed. " Lee Lorenz, in The New Yorker, October 27, 1975.

What are we looking for in healing— simply the physical restoration of matter so that we can get on with our lives? Or do we recognize the fact that every malady—physical or otherwise—is really an alarm, signaling us to get out of the dream of life in matter? Radical reliance upon God, Spirit, for healing requires the right standpoint. Actually, our intent of healing in Christian Science is not to change matter (in fact, Christian Science refutes matter), but rather to verify the allness of Spirit, God.

Regardless of how sophisticated or how simple our life style may be, as long as our basis of thinking and living is material, we will have only a very tenuous hold on happiness, peace, and harmony. In Science and Health Mrs.