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Perhaps you have agreed to serve as a Christian Science worker in a prison. How can you prepare for the assignment? If you are experienced in branch church work, have had class instruction, and have healed yourself and others, you have actually been preparing for institutional work for some time.

Questioning Peter regarding his dedication to the Christ, Jesus asked, "Lovest thou me?" John 21:16; Within that very month Peter had denied the Master three times, and now Jesus required him to avow his love three times. Peter had earlier perceived Jesus' true, spiritual identity to be the Christ, the promised Messiah.

Christian Science endorses true humility as a rung in the ladder to a higher understanding of God. The more we learn of the true nature of God, the All-in-all, the greater is our respect for His highest idea, man.

It's well known today that time is a relative concept—the difference between now and then when reckoned from here or there—but Christian Science views time as relative in a far more basic way. As any of us grasp in some measure this relativity and see that time is not fixed or absolute, we are able to become better, healthier, more effective, more loving— all more quickly.

When a Christian can demonstrate his understanding of God's presence and power enough to destroy sickness, sorrow, sin, and lack, he is proving in some degree that he is a scientific Christian. A Christian without proof of his idealism might be compared to a musician without a performance or an architect without a building.

Viewed metaphysically, integrity demands that we see ourselves and others from the standpoint of Truth as spiritual ideas of God. To identify man as an imperfect mortal opposes divine law.

Summing up a discussion about the importance of mental discipline, I read to my Sunday School class of high school seniors Paul's counsel, "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. " Phil.

Commitment to Christian Science brings healing. This Science teaches us how to align our thoughts with God and to demonstrate the benefits of full reliance on His law.

Everyone is seeking what he believes to be good. The criminal believes he gets something good by his crime, and the upright man by his uprightness.

Quiet communion with God, self-discipline, and total honesty equip us to master every adverse circumstance. Like a powerful motor, prayer gives us the spiritual energy we need to move in and master paralyzing fears.