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To Christ Jesus, Life was God—nothing else and nothing less. His consciousness of God was his life, and because this consciousness proceeded from God, it was complete.

Let's talk a little about being critical —the criticism that acknowledges and points out mistakes. It wouldn't be discriminating, wise, or honest to ignore mistakes—especially our own.

To maintain lasting friendships is a Christian demand, especially so for students of Christian Science, who recognize the one God, divine Love, as the source of all being. The truth is that each individual in his actual, Godlike identity is always in perfect harmony with every other individual, because as ideas of the one Mind, God, they are individually and collectively governed by Him.

Christ Jesus extended a loving welcome to all humanity when he said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " Matt.

No one spiritually awakened by the activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist, has any doubt that something vital is going on in church, unseen yet deeply felt. But it is not always easy to answer the question, What is this something? I was once brought face to face with my own need of an answer to this question.

To some extent the world has agreed that an individual's thought affects his health and well-being. But thought is considered to be just one of countless factors influencing us, many of which are believed to be more or less beyond our control.

Some people have always felt the pull of grace and divinity. Not fully understanding this spiritual attraction, men and women may have interpreted the sense of inspiration, promise, power, or direction they were receiving from God as a private dispensation: they were the elect, the chosen.

Mary Baker Eddy's unselfish prayers were clearly of great consequence in bringing about remarkable spiritual development in her own life and in enabling her to help and heal countless other people. From her writings, and sometimes also from biographies of her, we gain useful information as to what she found essential to include in daily prayer.

People pause and wonder, "What's developing in my life?" The future offers the hope of good, but the fear of evil often dominates thinking instead, and the fatalistic platitude "Whatever will be will be" is not a satisfactory answer for most of humanity. Christian Science teaches that under God's law only good has the power to develop.

Constructive, original, alert thinking requires conscious effort and practice. Are we constantly renewing our reading approach to the Bible and to Science and Health by Mrs.