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Not long ago a Christian Scientist overheard a lively fellow church worker reading a familiar children's story to a preschooler. But what he heard wasn't the animated, joyful approach he expected.

If a stranger were to knock at our door and accuse us of robbing a bank, would we turn ourselves in to the authorities for a crime we didn't commit? Being certain of our innocency, we would refuse even to consider paying a penalty. Isn't it just as unreasonable to believe that we need leave the security of our spiritual identity and unity with God, good, for bondage to mortal, so-called laws? We don't have to.

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Have you ever had a particularly healing idea come to you? One that was so unusual and fresh you wished you could share it with others? Well, you can! Perhaps you have the makings of a good metaphysical article for publication in The Christian Science Journal or Christian Science Sentinel . What a joyful privilege to send an impersonal healing message to others through these divinely appointed vehicles! We can reinvest, as it were, what we ourselves have received from God, from the inspiration of these publications, and from our own experiences.

Do spiritual values have any relevance to chemistry? Is belief in God compatible with a career in the laboratory? Are the phenomena of chemistry governed by divine law? Many believe that the physical sciences and the realm of religious and spiritual insight are totally unrelated. Is this true? Among the instructions that Christ Jesus gave his disciples shortly before his ascension were the words, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

A branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is effective as a healing influence in the community in proportion to its members' understanding of the true meaning of Church and their participation in its activity—the stirring and elevating of thought to bring healing to mankind. At times we may hesitate to accept church responsibility, perhaps fearing that we don't have the right experience or ability or that it will take too much of our time.

Mortal mind and physical force are the same. They counterfeit the spiritual forces of divine Mind.

Someone faced with a threat of lack of strength or health or life might turn to God to pray for these. But Christian Science shows us that because God is Life and the source of all the strength, health, and life there is, man already has strength, health, life.

It is important to know—to understand —that in God's universe, that is, in reality, there is no conflict or discord. No struggle against fear, prejudice, poverty, sickness (and worse) is a real factor in your identity as a child of God, made and sustained in His image.

It must have taken great courage for Paul and Silas to sing praises to God. They had been unjustly accused in a foreign land, severely beaten, and imprisoned in a dungeon with their feet locked in stocks.