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Throughout the centuries there have been heralds of Truth who have cried out for reform and repentance. One of the most powerful of these was John the Baptist.

There are times when we need to step back and take a penetrating, thoughtful, in-depth look at the Church of Christ, Scientist. This need often arises from anticipation of assuming new duties or positions in our branch church work.

We learn from the Scriptures and in Christian Science that whatever God made or includes is perfect, good, eternal—entirely spiritual. While mortal and material conditions and things come to our notice, they have only a temporary claim to existence in our earthly lives, not the everlasting substance of divine reality.

Christ Jesus was "ultra," and divine Principle demands that we be too if we would demonstrate God's law of good in our daily living. Mrs.

Perhaps some people think of church as a sacrifice for God, a sort of favor we do for Him in return for all the good He has done for us. But Christian Science shows us a different view.

A correct sense of cooperation is helpful in Christian healing. We cooperate with the divine power that heals by accepting right ideas—spiritual thoughts from God that reveal the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.

It is a commendable and wonderful thing to be a good human being, but it is not always enough to ensure our health and happiness. Sometimes, good human beings are so mesmerized with discordant world belief that they are drawn along with it and suffer as a consequence.

Recently, I considered more deeply what Christian Science is all about— especially the reasons why Christian Scientists choose not to go to hospitals and take medicine. In the Science of Christianity we are looking for more than physical healing.

In obedience to God's command to free His people from slavery in Egypt and guide them into the Promised Land, Moses became a leader. His alarm at the assignment was a natural reaction of the human mind when it feels inadequate to carry out God's plan of action.

Are you a little shy about speaking truth to another? Do you perhaps feel that if you did try to share the good news of God's love for man, you would meet with disbelief and personal rejection? I used to feel like that. Even after I had become a student of Christian Science, for years I more or less kept it to myself.