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In Christian Science we learn to view ourselves and others not as mortals, frustrated and incomplete, but as divine ideas of God, satisfied and complete. True identity partakes only of the divine elements of being.

As we approach the Christmas season, our hearts turn joyfully to the celebration of the birth of Christ Jesus to the Virgin-mother, Mary. We think of Christianity as beginning in the manger where Jesus was born.

Five years ago I was an artist living outside any of the traditional art centers of the world, and suffering from a deep sense of artistic isolation. Today I am still an artist and still living in the same place, but I have been healed of all sense of isolation.

About fifteen years ago I married a New Zealander, and we went to live in his country, a considerable distance from my home—the other side of the world, to be precise. A relative gave us an airmail subscription to The Christian Science Monitor; we became so attached to reading its reports that we continued the airmail subscription ourselves, even though the higher postage rate meant paying about five times the cost of the paper itself.

"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" Isa. 52:7.

Newspaper experts say that the health of a newspaper depends on the extent to which it is considered essential or indispensable by its core readers. Mrs.

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.