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Serving as Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, or a Christian Science Society is an opportunity for seeing more clearly the activity of God's presence in the lives and affairs of mankind. Service implies readiness: readiness to follow directions, readiness to be inspired, readiness to be of use.

For many years part of my family's affairs have been looked after by a firm who call themselves either lawyers or solicitors according to the part of the English speaking world they are addressing at the moment. One of the early members of this firm, who was a very enlightened Christian and a devout churchman, had a favorite saying: "It's only a hair's breadth which hides the sun from us.

"You've got to keep half a thought ahead of the blighters. " This was my droving mate Boomerang's explanation of his practical application of the adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

God's law of restoration is ever operative. Its tender blessing is always available to meet human problems of deterioration and loss.

No matter what the urgency, there is always time to be kind. David and his six hundred men were employed by Achish, the Philistine ruler of Gath, a southwestern city in ancient Palestine.

When Verdi's opera Aïda comes to its final scene, the two lovers, Radames and Ai'da, are about to be buried alive. The opera closes with their farewell duet and the Princess Amneris's helpless wailing.

We really begin to live when we look to God, divine Spirit, for all good. As God, and not matter or people, is understood to be the source of happiness and well-being, human experience blossoms in good—in health, accomplishment, fulfillment.

Vehemence has been known to accomplish much good in supporting a high human sense of truth. "Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it" "J'accuse," L 'Aurore, January 13, 1898; was the vehement stand taken by Emile Zola in defense of the accused Army officer Dreyfus in France in 1898.

Many of humanity's fears arise from false beliefs entertained about life, substance, and body, about cause and effect. Christian Science comes to dispel these fears.

If we're faced with trouble, Christian Science can give us a sense of divine direction. The inspiration that comes with a glimpse of our true being, our sinless spiritual identity, lifts burdened and discouraged thought.