Articles

Haven't you known of Christian Science Reading Rooms that were only slightly active although ideally located? On the other hand, haven't you known of Reading Rooms that were continually active yet located in less promising areas? How do we account for the apparent contradiction? And how can we improve the service of our Reading Room to our community? Since healing in Christian Science involves right reasoning—reasoning from spiritual, scientific premises—it follows that right reasoning needs to be actively exercised in improving, locating, or relocating our Reading Room. Scientific right reasoning starts from the divine premise of God's, Spirit's, allness and not from any human consideration.

Materialism may be defined as any mode of thought that places emphasis on matter, whether as cause or as an object of fear or desire, and whether this is done consciously or unconsciously. In one sense, everyone reading this is a materialist, since we all seem to have unconsciously accepted the belief that ideas can be apprehended through the physical senses.

Christ Jesus said to Simon and Andrew, "Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. "  Mark 1:17;  He was substantially inviting them to become public practitioners of the healing law of God.

So much in Christian Science healing depends on our being able to see man in the likeness of God—perfect, spiritual, whole. But sometimes sympathy keeps us so preoccupied with the difficulty that it blocks this view and slows recovery.

Christian Science healing can never be taught or practiced as a formula. Every Christian Science treatment is deeply individual, not a predecided mental argument or stock set of things to "handle" on every occasion.

As musicians turn humbly from a self indulgent sense of ego to acknowledge the one divine Ego, God, they can draw on limitless resources to impel artistic expression. From God, the source of all harmony and beauty, we reflect every attribute needed for creative work.

If you were asked today, "What is the source or reason for your happiness?" what would your answer be? Would you instantly reply, "God is the source of my happiness. " Or would the name of a loved person come immediately to thought? In her Miscellaneous Writings Mrs.

Protests—peaceful or violent—usually make the headlines. These protests may be constructive or they may do more harm than good.

When Christ Jesus tested his disciples' confidence in the power of God to supply whatever was necessary to feed the multitude, the response emphasized the picture of insufficient supply and belittled what was on hand: "Five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?" Jesus, with his clear vision of substance as wholly spiritual, demonstrated the inexhaustible abundance of divine Love's giving. He "took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

If God is omnipotent, merciful, and just, why does He permit evil to exist? The theological term "theodicy" reflects an attempt to reconcile this paradox by vindicating God's attributes of mercy and justice, in spite of the presence of evil in the world. But Christian Science solves the dilemma by disclosing the nothingness of evil—revealing that God neither creates evil nor does He permit it to exist.