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We were on the Isle of Patmos, just outside the cave where St. John is said to have lived in exile and to have written his letters to the Asian churches.

Inspiration Inspiration is like a bucket of fireflies. Once you've filled the bucket, just peel off the lid and stand back.

How does Christian Science actually bring reform and healing to disturbed or diseased human lives? This is a question the newcomer often asks, but its answer is just as vital to the more seasoned student of this Science. Many people assume there is a hidden power in the human mind that enables it to put itself right, and that what we need to do is tap this supposed resource.

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.