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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.

The biblical narrative of Abraham and Isaac introduces us to a profound theme. Of advanced years and still without an heir, Abraham heard God's promise, "Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" Gen.

Sometimes a Christian Science practitioner is asked if he or she would be willing to pray for a patient if he wishes to rely on medication as well as on God for healing. The practitioner must refuse, but on occasion may wonder if the individual really understands why the request for help has been declined.

Lethargy may be one byproduct of our new electronic era. Who can keep up with the speed of light? Beginning-middle-end thought processes seem archaic when swamped by computer simultaneity.

No one is ever deprived of the opportunity to learn more of God and His Christ; therefore, no one ever has to be deprived of joy. Desire—yes, even craving—to know God safeguards joy.

Where is God? Is He in the room where you are reading this article? If so, exactly where—in the space between you and the walls, in the furniture? In your body? Few would believe God is in material elements. Christian Science explains that God is Spirit, absolutely All.

Mrs. Eddy envisioned tremendous potential for healing and spiritual enlightenment when she established The Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Christian Science offers us a sure remedy for egotism, selfishness, self-will, and self-love, because it corrects human character weaknesses with the understanding of spiritual facts. This Science reveals God as the one all-embracing Mind, as the sole center and origin of a universe of spiritual ideas.