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As many students of Christian Science have found, it is possible to feel comfort and release from sorrow when someone we love has died. Through the inspired understanding of the Apostle Paul's words "Henceforth know we no man after the flesh," II Cor.

It has been said that frustration is thwarted self-will. Such a statement bids one pause and consider.

Healing, a condition of salvation, is inherent in the theology of Christian Science. Healing includes dropping off whatever is unreal, unlike God and His creation, for the real.

Spiritual preparedness, or readiness, is a fortress against the challenges of materialism. How comforting to know that the cornerstone for building this fortress is present today in the truths taught by-Christian Science.

Sometimes when existence is pleasant and comfortable, there is little incentive to grow spiritually. We are happy with our life just as it is.

Before pictures were shown of the effects of weightlessness, most people were quite sure that if they tipped over a glass of water, it would spill on the floor. Now they are not quite so sure.

A young child may be earmarked for special counseling because testing has determined that his social attitudes are not up to par. Psychological tests have classified him as needing corrective instruction, even though the validity of the tests has not always been thoroughly demonstrated.

If you picked up a hot pan, you would drop it—and fast. Through Christian Science we can develop the ability to separate the real from the unreal and learn to drop discords just as spontaneously and quickly.

Mrs. Eddy goes straight to the heart of one of the leading issues of our age when she writes in Science and Health : "Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind.

Hebrew thinking was concrete. Terms such as history, personality, conscience, conduct , were almost alien to prophets and other biblical writers.