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A decoy has a special function. Sportsmen lure wildfowls, especially ducks, with decoys.

Have you ever watched a bird strike at the reflection of himself in a windowpane or in the shiny hubcap of a car? The bird is convinced that he is fighting off an invader of his territory, a potential enemy, when all the time it is only himself he sees. Aren't we sometimes just as gullible when we accept the deceitful testimony of the material senses? One of the basic teachings of Christ Jesus is that a man should love his enemies.

Mental malpractice springs from the lying supposition that God, divine Mind, has an opposite—mortal mind—and that man is a mortal being with a material mind capable of thinking evil thoughts. But the Science of Christianity shatters this supposition with the mighty truth that divine Mind is All and that man is Mind's spiritual, immortal idea.

God is universal Spirit. He is one complete whole.

Most people tend to shy away from a fight because conflict is unsettling, discordant, and often destructive. But there is one kind of fight that is good; it is a conflict inspired by a growing understanding of man's relation to God.

There is a readiness in the human heart that opens the way for healing. This readiness was present when Mrs.

How comforting it can be for Readers in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, to know that though they may live in a place far from most other Christian Scientists—in Africa or Indonesia, for example—their church service has the support of every other Christian Science congregation throughout the world, because the Lesson-Sermon read in all branch churches on a particular Sunday is the same! When I had the opportunity of serving as First Reader, I would start preparing by stating the spiritual truths and denying the claims of error that relate to the entire world, since the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly is for the whole world. It is interesting to note that when Mrs.

The mountain climber is rewarded with widening vistas as he ascends. Meanwhile, the things below assume less and less significance as they gradually fade from sight.

It was Thanksgiving eve. With our houseguest, I had arrived early at church for the Wednesday evening testimony meeting.

Without exception every individual has a wonderful and perfect spiritual identity, and each one is unique and distinct. However, the frequent reminder "Be yourself "suggests that one may often have assumed a character contrary to his own individuality and therefore has failed in the basic necessity to know himself and to then act accordingly.