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Many people at some point have felt trapped by circumstances—a present filled with despair and an unhappy future that seems to hold no solution. One might unknowingly consent to unhealthy gloom.

The story goes that a psychiatrist, baffled in his efforts to help a totally self-absorbed patient, finally said, "I can't do anything for you except advise that you go to Niagara Falls and take a long, lingering look at something bigger than yourself. " Yet even the dynamic force of Niagara Falls pales before the gentle power of divine Love.

Prayer can heal discrimination based on age, sex, race, nationality, or any other factor. For instance, a woman yearned to participate in a community organization but was unable to because no others of her race were members.

The purpose of a Christian Science lecture is to enlighten the public as to Christian Science, to reply to condemnation of it, and to give the facts of the life of its Founder and Discoverer, Mrs. Eddy.

If physical discomfort assails them, Christian Scientists are usually quick to deny the discomfort from the standpoint of Science. We affirm conscientiously that it is without cause or power, because we understand these to be vested in omnipresent divine Spirit.

Jesus' career epitomized the activity of good. Wherever he went he knew the right thing to do, the right time to do it, and the right way to do it.

Concert musicians are selective and exclusive about their instruments. "But you know," said violinist Eugene Fodor in an interview, "the important thing is still the player and the life he lends to music.

In our part of the country it was quite usual for a woman to use the expression "my man": "Well, my man hasn't come home for supper yet," or, "I'll talk it over with my man. " It was, perhaps, provincial, but its tenor wasn't possessive or jealous, just close and tender.

The power of Christian Science healing proceeds from God's constant control of what exists. Therefore, every Christianly scientific healing demonstrates in some degree the intactness of man's subordination to divine law.

Spiritual identity persists despite the apparent comings and goings of material personalities and things on earth. Antedating and postdating the dream of materiality, individual being exists now, forever in God's infinite realm, untouched by mortal events.