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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.

To learn about our true identity or condition, it's important that we look into the right mirror. The mirror of selfishly preoccupied thought will give back a distorted picture; the mirror of medical beliefs will delineate morbid physical symptoms; the mirror of scholastic theology will reflect outworn theories of mankind's conception in sin and liability to sin; the mirror of worldliness will outline sensual social patterns.

No doubt about it! They are. And the key to such demonstration is a correct concept of man—his nature, origin, motivation, purpose.

It's all in Mind, God. Yes, there is only one Mind, and all that really exists is in and of this Mind.

A farmer in the African bush, the story goes, once found an abandoned baby eagle. He carried it back to his shamba, or plantation, and raised it with his chickens.

Teaching in a Christian Science Sunday School can be a time of unlimited progress for both pupils and teacher. To reap this reward, the teacher must be gaining freedom from belief in a self apart from God and from the false sense of responsibility that goes with this belief.

The Psalmist must have been hungry for Truth, craving the healing peace and harmony of Soul's presence, when he wrote, "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. " Ps.

Being the best means being Godlike. It means being one's true self, what God has already created one to be as His perfect emanation.

A fresh start, a new beginning—who isn't interested! To wipe the slate clean of yesterday's hurt and injustices and of the dreads that hover over an upcoming tomorrow, this is a challenging hope. It has haunted and eluded so many people, always seeming to be just out of reach.