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Much time, effort, and love are usually put into the preparatory work for a Christian Science lecture. But while our efforts toward planning for the lecture are necessary and proper, we can do still more.

Like a weather vane swinging back and forth, a parent's feelings may alternate between hope and despair if he judges his children's future in Christian Science by their present, perhaps variable, disposition toward it. But there is a better way to approach the question, "Will they become Christian Scientists?" It is one that can bring peace to a parent through all the joyful, challenging years of childraising.

Members of The Mother Church are in the unique position of being able to set as an attainable goal the healing of multitudes. How? By accepting the privilege afforded them to contribute to the Christian Science periodicals.

Truth exists. For that reason, it is not in fact possible, by prayer or by any other means, to increase or diminish it.

Christ Jesus spoke with authority and healed with authority. He was convinced of the allness of God, of His all-power.

"Where are you building your church?" This question was asked of a member of a church about to build—a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The member pointed out the location.

One of the suggestions of animal magnetism is disruption of sound friendships. We read in the book of Proverbs, "A whisperer separateth chief friends.

In order to keep our thought clear so we may serve God better, we need to guard our mental realm from evil suggestions, which tend toward disease or upset. These aggressive suggestions—of fear, pain, hatred, sensuality—appear to us for handling, or eradicating.

Do you know how many times Mrs. Eddy uses the word harmony in her writings? According to the Concordances to Science and Health and her other prose works, two hundred and seventy-one times, and this doesn't include allied words, such as harmonious and harmonize.

I vividly recall watching a documentary program on television, based on conditions in a country other than my own. Specifically designed to inform viewers of the appalling living conditions under which part of the population existed, the scenes must have been disheartening to those whose outlook was restricted by, and confined to, matter and things material.