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With consummate artistry the contralto sang the moving spiritual, "Lit'l Boy, How Ole Are You?" This refrain receives the repeated response, "Sir, I'm only twelve years old. " The dialogue refers of course to the experience of the child Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem.

A young man went into the full-time practice of Christian Science healing. One day when he answered a new patient's knock at the door, she took a surprised look at him and asked, "Is your father in?" The young practitioner smiled and replied, "Yes, my Father is in, but I'm the practitioner!" That young practitioner realized that God, his Father, was the healer.

When I was at school, several years before I became a Christian Scientist, a pugnacious boy decided to make me his victim by regularly trying to start a fistfight. His aggressiveness persisted for several weeks.

The discovery by Mary Baker Eddy that Christianity is Science began a revolution in human thought as yet unrecognized by a vast majority of serious thinkers. But the momentum of this revolution is deeply felt by the individual who grasps the spiritual significance of the discovery.

"Giving up something one likes. " This was the gist of the response of a group of young people when questioned, "What is self-denial?" Most of them answered by giving an example—referring to an act they would have to perform so as to be forgiven for some misdeed or self-indulgence.

It is our duty to be healthy. Yes, it is just as much our duty to express health as it is to express love.

A child may say she will be "grown up" when she can dress herself. A teen-ager often equates adulthood with owning his or her own car.

The quality of justice is always safely out of human hands and in God's keeping. Though all human resources and recourses should utterly fail, divine justice would remain demonstrable— supreme.

Help for marital problems can be found in the Bible—spiritually understood in the light of Christian Science— and not only in verses that specifically mention marriage and divorce but also in the accumulated scriptural evidence of how spiritual power transforms our lives. Sometimes the question seems to be, Is it better to stay married and be miserable or to get a divorce? Happily, these are not the only alternatives.

The world seeks plenty, but in most cases in the wrong direction—from matter and personality. As we understand the real nature of good, we see that it's not from anything material, in some far country or greener pasture.