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Driving home from church one Sunday, I turned on the car radio, and this is what I heard: "Is your one supreme desire to be like Jesus?" It's a good question! Is our supreme desire to follow Jesus' example? If it is, and if we put this desire into action, we will be consecrated Christian Scientists. I had never thought of it quite that way before, but aren't the two really the same thing? If with all our heart we want to practice Christian Science, won't our supreme desire be to follow Jesus? But we need to be constantly alert that we don't just use Christian Science to have a more comfortable mortal existence.

The Bible provides in the character of the young prophet Jeremiah a splendid example of how God-empowered testimony, given with a desire to help one's fellowmen, protects the testifier and contributes to his spiritual growth. God told Jeremiah to prophesy to his people, but he resisted.

Age isn't years; it's entrenched belief. Control belief, and we begin the essential job of challenging aging.

When Jesus healed the sick, he spoke with authority. "Hold thy peace, and come out of him," Mark 1:25.

Christian Science brings sure healing. There's no doubt about that.

Thinkers and perceptive observers of events concede we live in a period of fundamental revolution and change. Many elements of human life are, they say, in flux: politics, ideologies, medicine, the arts, morality, philosophy, relationships, communications.

Readership in Christian Science church services is a call to speak the Word of God with the inspiration that heals. It is God's assignment, not people's choice, and carries with it God's protection.

What one thinks of himself is a central factor in his well-being. Genuine self-respect is not based on psychology.

A comment that beauty in the world seems all but lost in a swamp of ugly problems turned me to the Psalmist's lovely prayer: "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.

Is time a primary element of all that is real? It appears to be. But try to find a beginning to time, and we have to ask, "What came before that?" Or an end, "What comes after?" There is no way of comprehending time other than to recognize it as a mental concept, limited, finite, mortal—a dream of something that has no real explanation.