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Each year branch church lecture committees all over the world meet to plan Christian Science lectures for the coming lecture year. During this period the lecturers Members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

It has been said that when the world stops saying that we're too young, it starts saying that we're too old! Unwittingly, we may accept limitations imposed upon us by world beliefs that say we are subject to the conditions of a material body. But we don't have to.

Light is always the solution to darkness. The light of Truth is the antidote for the darkness of ignorance or despair.

Have you ever felt persecuted? Maybe you have followed your highest sense of right, only to find that others have misinterpreted your intentions? Right now, if an unpleasant situation seems huge and unsolvable, you may be tempted to throw up your hands in despair and say, "Forget it. It's just too overwhelming.

Christian Science healing exposes the speciousness of matter's claim to existence. This Science, to the degree it is understood, dependably enables us to demonstrate a great fact: that God, Spirit, fully constitutes all reality and constantly causes man to be Godlike, spiritual, and good.

All through the centuries people have been impelled to help their fellowman. In the Middle Ages this desire often took the form of almsgiving and almshouses; and in our own day one is pleased to see what a large place charities occupy.

Study of the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is primary. Beyond this, we are helped to catch a gleam of her great vision by digging deep into her authorized biographies, obtainable at all Christian Science Reading Rooms.

It is fashionable at the present time for people to track down many generations of their family tree. Some of them hope this knowledge will clarify or justify their present status in society.

What enables some people to withstand difficulties and come out on top? Pride? On the contrary, an inordinate feeling of self-importance can muddle our perspective and keep us from improving a troubled situation. But self-respect based on man's unbroken relation to God produces sound solutions.

A well-known military rule says that the best means of defense is attack. There is a mental war going on today involving claims that skilled thought control, mental manipulation, and occult, hypnotic arts can be used for both good and evil purposes.