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Serving God and Church is service to mankind. The love in one's heart widens affection and aids in establishing peace, love, and good in the world.

Meeting challenges can be satisfying. But what happens when there seem to be no goals, no demands, nothing to grow toward or away from? What happens, for example, to someone on the brink of retirement who doesn't intend to redirect his energy? At times when there seems to be no incentive, mortals may become apathetic.

Each year class-taught students of Christian Science have the opportunity to revitalize their commitment to the things of Spirit at the "morning meal" of their association day. This yearly gathering, provided for in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs.

A healing tone in the reading at Christian Science services is of primary importance. The thought, the inward view, of the Readers plays a big part in maintaining this tone.

The word "accretion" appears only twice in all of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. But it is a mighty word in spiritual instruction.

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.