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Sometimes older members who are quite capable turn branch church work over to the younger ones and put themselves "out to pasture. " When this happens, both the church and the retiring members are losers.

One summer as I was looking out to the south of the site of Pleasant View, in Concord, New Hampshire—where Mary Baker Eddy once lived—I wondered, How is it that this slight New England woman could become the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science? How is it that she was the one to recognize the signs of the second coming of Christ? How can the coming of Christian Science be an example of divine destiny and of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy? Answers to this type of question depend largely on our understanding of the meanings of words—words like "destiny," "prophecy," and "revelation. " As in all things, Christian Scientists are called upon to go far beyond ordinary definitions as outlined by popular usage or scholastic theology.

If you understand the Principle of scientific mental healing, you can heal by its power. This power is divine because it comes from God, from the Mind that is Love, and it operates as law.

Among the fundamental truths we learn through the study of Christian Science is that time is unreal. It is unreal because God's universe is spiritual and His universe is all the universe there is.

What is eternity? An endless passage of time? Or a state of timelessness? Religions and philosophies talk about eternal life, but what does this imply in practical terms? Does it imply a static Utopia? The Christian Scientist views eternity in a unique light. He distinguishes sharply between the apparent material reality, which includes the human conceptions of time, and the eternal facts— the changeless, spiritual reality that is God and God's ever-present manifestation.

There is a saying that when all conversation dries up in a roomful of people and there is an embarrassing silence, an angel is passing overhead. The concept of an angel in human form with wings is one that has brought religion into a degree of disrepute.

When false or misleading testimony is submitted in a court of law, the attorney's job is to present the truth that refutes it. Treatment in Christian Science works in much the same way.

Have you ever tried to find more rhyme and reason in the endless routines—working, eating, sleeping, playing? A purpose? A happy ending? Do you agree with the Preacher when he decries the world's mad busyness and concludes, "All is vanity"? Eccl. 3:19; Through our little rounds of trouble and happiness, where are we going? To another life? Another sphere? Oblivion? Divine Science, as discovered and recorded by Mrs.

A Christian Scientist facing many physical problems reached two conclusions concerning himself based on the old truism that as one's thoughts go, so goes his experience. He remembered, for example, the statement in Science and Health by Mrs.

One might say that mortal man is the shadow of the real man. When the light touches any shadow, the shadow vanishes.