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When the curtain is opened, light instantly pours into a darkened room. Similarly, when the curtain of a false sense of substance and identity is removed through the study and living of Christian Science, the truth floods thought.

How many times must one resist the temptation to act with less than his highest sense of right? How many times must one reject evil's claims to reality, influence, or attractiveness? How many times must one say no to the devil? As many times as it takes to stand with God. This is the answer I came to after mentally reviewing an unpleasant circumstance for the fiftieth or sixtieth time.

In Science, we have no reason to fear animal magnetism. Never for a moment, anywhere, has it ever been real, powerful, or substantial.

Christian Science elucidates Christ Jesus' victory over the entrenched belief in matter and material law. He proved that spiritual substance is the preeminent, total reality.

It's a common instinct to shrink from the unpleasant, just hoping it will go away. Like sea anemones retreating into themselves when they detect a threat, human beings sometimes simply withdraw from things that are not nice and that threaten their comfort and security.

The biblical story of Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem is a useful case history for anyone wishing to better understand the Christly way to deal with evil suggestions—with whatever would abort, hinder, divert, discourage, or defeat any good work. When Nehemiah first heard about the broken walls and burned gates of Jerusalem, he was deeply distressed and prayed for God's guidance.

Recently the board of trustees of a branch church in Maryland decided they had to handle specifically, through prayer, arguments of disorganization directed against the Church of Christ, Scientist. This step was of such benefit that they shared with the membership the value of meeting attacks on the Cause actively in individual thought.

Even a momentary glimpse of the power of Truth awakens in the student of Christian Science a desire to learn more about God, man, and spiritual reality. As the student progresses, he yearns to dig still deeper into the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy and become more systematic and effective in his study and practice.

Moral courage! Living up to a high standard of love. Unselfed deeds, perhaps performed under stress and without regard for personal safety, take us beyond counting on human capacity to reliance on divine aid.

A friend of mine who had been a student of Christian Science for several years was discussing the subject of class instruction. She quoted the Bible verse, "Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.