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Law is a key element in all science. Through Christian Science we learn that the allness of God constitutes the highest law of man.

When on trial in Athens for challenging some of the entrenched beliefs and attitudes of his time, Socrates said in his defense: "If you put me to death, you will not easily find anyone to take my place. It is literally true, even if it sounds rather comical, that God has specially appointed me to this city, as though it were a large thoroughbred horse which because of its great size is inclined to be lazy and needs the stimulation of some stinging fly.

Grief can be healed. Instantaneous, permanent comfort derives from the realization that real being is incorporeal, divine, and that every spiritual identity dwells in the all-embracing arms of infinite Love—in the very bosom of God's fatherly and motherly care.

One's attitude toward those who are to receive the ministrations of the healing practice of Christian Science or of the church largely determines the success of both practice and church. If the would be practitioner thinks of prospective patients as mortals with lesser understanding coming to be benefited by someone with a greater understanding, he or she can expect a limited practice with uncertain results.

Animal magnetism. What does it mean? Can it affect me? How can I protect myself from it? First, animal magnetism is a generic term our Leader, Mrs.

While First Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist, I once prepared a series of Wednesday evening readings on what it means to be a Christian. One particular afternoon I was working late putting together readings on "the Way.

The tendency of human thought, even when instructed in Christian Science, is to vacillate between the spiritual fact of man's eternal perfection as God's idea and the mortal sense of existence with its sin and disease. We cannot permanently destroy any error of sin or of sickness without coming to terms with this tendency.

A moving statement of the Christ occurs in a well-known Christmas carol celebrating the appearing of Christ in the birth of Jesus: Long lay the world in sin and error pining, Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.

Some people believe that the machines touching our days—television, home appliances, factory installations, computers, and cars, to mention a few—have an almost self-contained, objective existence. That they are governed by their own laws and may be subject to capricious behavior.

Is individuality selfish? Is self-expression personal? Is there a difference between individuality and personality? I used to have difficulty in answering these questions. Then when I was a student I began to play the violin in the university orchestra.