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There's the old saying "Don't cry over spilled milk. " And there's the old nursery rhyme about the egg that fell off the wall and broke, and All the king's horses, And all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times .

More than words and phrases and sentences, the Christian Science Bible Lessons bring centuries of Christly living and revelation to unite with our individual study. Made up of citations from the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, each lesson develops a subject in an inspired and unique way.

A Christian Science nurse has a role in healing because healing has a role in her/his thought. The activity of healing has become imperative in consciousness.

The present age is one of transition. We have seen a breakaway from imposed authority and discipline.

Are you thinking of yourself as a mortal today? Don't do it! This would be denying your spiritual status as the son of God, Spirit. It would be accepting that man lives in a mortal body and is governed by a so-called mortal mind.

After I had been teaching older students in the Christian Science Sunday School for several years, I was asked to take a class of eight-year-olds. This was quite unexpected, and I reacted negatively.

For some years now, facial expressions, gestures, and unconscious bodily movements have been systematically studied by psychologists, who have given the name of "kinesics" to this field of knowledge. More recently, the term "body language" has become part of the general idiom, owing in part to popular books on the subject.

The simple act of inviting our neighbors to a Christian Science lecture has the potential of greatly promoting our and their spiritual growth. The lecture can teach the present vitality of Christ Jesus' life and work; awaken thought to the understanding and demonstration of spiritual reality—peace, health, purity—here and now; satisfy the longings of frustrated hearts; point out the path of regeneration; correct misconceptions of Christian Science.

The story is told that Jenny Lind, a famous soprano in the mid-1800 's, was once asked by an admirer how she could so fearlessly face huge audiences. She answered, "I never have but one in my audience.