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Have you ever attempted to duplicate someone's demonstration after listening to a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting? And were the results disappointing? This can happen if we dwell on persons and results rather than on divine Principle, God. We learn from this failure that we cannot copy another's treatment.

For some time now I have been pondering how well we really know how to practice Christian Science. One evening while attending a symphony concert I was impressed with what it meant to practice, and what practice could achieve.

On one occasion, Christ Jesus' disciples asked him, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" They wanted to find out, perhaps, who was the most favored, or spiritually advanced, in his eyes. Did they hope to hear a name or names they recognized? We don't really know, of course.

A lie is no longer deceptive, or accepted, when the truth is known and believed. The impositions of mortality are no longer deceptive or acceptable when the truths of God reveal the falsity of all mortality.

The pink ribbon of river wound its way between icy banks as it flowed eastward toward the roseate dawn. Starting in a glacial lake a hundred miles back in the mountains, the river would flow more than a thousand miles across the Canadian prairies and through the Precambrian shield until it emptied into Hudson Bay.

The assertive push. The intimidated pull back.

I had just been informed that a friend had passed on. Yet I knew, regardless of our limited material perspective, that this friend would never cease to exist.

The Bible abounds in accounts of God's communications to man. From the first statement of creation in Genesis to the last imperative command of Revelation, God speaks so that all may hear.

Those elected to the sacred office of Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist, are afforded the privilege of filling one of the most significant positions attainable on this planet. They have the glorious opportunity of sharing the gospel of Christianity and obeying Christ Jesus' commands: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" Mark 16:15.

Seeking to reflect, in some measure, the Church Universal and Triumphant, Churches of Christ, Scientist, are not founded on personalities or human "pillars. " They stem from divine inspiration—being first conceived in the hearts of men and women awakened to the Truth, before budding and blossoming into institutions.