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One of the most joyful challenges before every Christian Scientist is to let divine Truth build in him such a strong defense of spirituality that should Truth's unreal opposite, animal magnetism, tempt him to be drawn to it like iron filings to a magnet, there will be nothing in him to respond to it. As we let Truth reveal itself in our thought and life, all latent and subtle forms of animal magnetism are brought out from under cover where we can clearly detect them and fully reject them as suppositional lies.

When those faithful, sorrowing women—Mary Magdalene, Salome, and the mother of James—went to the sepulcher at dawn, their purpose was to anoint the crucified body of Jesus with spices they had bought. When they entered the rock-hewn tomb, Mark tells us: "They saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

I used to think metaphysics was like a staircase. Each demonstration of the truth of God and man would give us more understanding of the Christ; and the higher we climbed, the more certain our ability to heal.

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.