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There is a divine order of harmony we can draw on for the healing of human ills and woes. This divine order is God's own conception of things—the perfection of His being, always represented and reflected in man and throughout His spiritual universe.

When an apple hanging from a tree snaps its stem, it doesn't momentarily pause to decide whether or not to obey the law of gravitation. It instantly falls to the ground.

To every army commander, exploiting success is good tactics. Whenever his forces make a breakthrough, that is the moment for all-out effort to widen the gap, to sever the enemy's supply lines and give him no time to regroup and counterattack.

When something pains or threatens us, we may have a certain bravado that claims "I'm not afraid. " But are we sometimes impressed in spite of ourselves? Are we dismayed at the error— concerned with its show of power, its pretense to reality? If so, we are accepting an intelligence other than God.

What is the greatest need of the Christian Science movement today? It is the same great need Mrs. Eddy faced, the same great need Christ Jesus had— the need for spiritually-minded men and women to understand and carry the Christ message! If animal magnetism— that unreal, so-called force that pulls one away from good—were an entity, how would it work to defeat the advance of Christian Science? Would it not work to defeat the spiritual impetus that dwells innately within each of us? Christ Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," Matt.

The city near my former home has an active port. Like other ports, it serves oceangoing freighters, carrying important goods to and from the area.

Thousands of years ago, the biblical Chronicler tells us, King David prayed in the presence of his people, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. " I Chron.

It would almost seem sometimes as if there were a resistance in our own makeup opposing progressive steps. Take getting up in the morning.

Do we ever stop to consider how Christian Science protects us by preventing untoward experiences, including disease? Mrs. Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood.

This time it was different! Instead of just reading through the Bible Lesson, In The Christian Science Quarterly; I was discovering the deep message in it. Not just reading words, but pondering ideas.