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The law of gravity, as earthlings see it, defines the tendency of objects to move toward the earth. There is little doubt as to the usefulness of this law.

If you were collecting antiques, would you knowingly accept a poor imitation? Who wouldn't prefer the genuine original? All too frequently we accept a counterfeit concept of ourselves. If we believe that we are unhappy, sick, poor, frustrated, unloved, we are being as impractical as if we had eagerly traded a priceless antique for a cheap fake.

Long ago in England there was a man who rented horses. But he had a rule: the rider had to take the horse nearest the stable door.

One more hour and the first week would be over. It was everything he had been assured it would be and much, much more.

It was one o'clock in the morning when my husband was seized with severe pain. Mortal mind would define its own phenomenon, name it, and delineate its course.

Most of us have felt insecure at times. Some look back longingly to the past.

Sometimes Christian Scientists' love for God and man may not come across to neighbors and associates. To one, serenity may translate into aloofness or smugness.

The state of the local, national, or world economy need not affect us adversely if we are spiritually minding our own economy. We live abundantly as we gain the Christly understanding of God as our Life, unrestricted, infinite.

Visitors to the beautiful gardens at Hampton Court Palace near London are often impressed by the maze, a labyrinth of passages formed by high, dense shrubbery planted in the seventeenth century. People entering the maze soon find themselves lost, but a uniformed attendant is present to answer calls of distress with the simple direction to place one's right hand on the hedge and follow it all the way.

Christian Science bridges the centuries. The practitioner of this Science, healing ills by spiritually mental means, is treading in the footsteps of the Old Testament prophets—Moses, Elijah, Elisha—who healed by the same power, the power of God.