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Beauty! What does it bring to mind? A sunrise, a flower, a face? These are human parables that can serve as reminders of God's idea of beauty, which is only discerned spiritually. Yet the mark of the beast See Rev.

During World War II, when the present Queen Mother was Queen of England, she was asked whether it was appropriate for her to wear her best dress when going to visit victims of bombing. She replied simply: "Of course.

To identify oneself with the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to unite with a mighty Cause. Each of us can be in this vanguard of thought, recognizing our growing role in its holy mission.

One of the most common facets of the human mind and life is the tendency of some individuals to play the part of a "sun" and of others to assume the role of "satellite. " When you think of a sun and its satellite, the picture that usually comes to mind is a star such as our own sun around which orbit smaller bodies like our earth.

Some years ago I was faced with a career decision. My previous field of study had not satisfied me, and I longed for education that more directly related to God.

As a young man, I was relocated to a small town where I knew no one. I was lonely and unhappy.

Sometimes a person feels a genuine desire to be more honest, loving, and spiritually-minded, but is held back from progress because he or she feels the practice of Christian Science is too burdensome or difficult. If we feel this way, then maybe we need to look deeper into the demands and rewards of Christian discipleship.

Persistence underlies all successful human endeavor. The cattle drover exemplifies this in moving his animals overland.

We don't live in a terribly confident age. We've almost come to expect that advances in research, learning, and technology in one area will result in problems and conflicts in another area.

If Nehemiah had not left the relative security of the royal palace at Susa, Sanballat and Tobiah probably wouldn't have known he existed. Because he responded to God's call to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, he provoked their fury— fury so intense that at one point Nehemiah cried out, "Hear, O our God; for we are despised.