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The first time I saw the Original Edifice of The Mother Church reflected with great clarity in the pool at the Christian Science Center in Boston two thoughts struck me. The first was that the church had been there for more than half a century, but that it had had no reflection until recently because there had been no pool.

To witness the precision of astronomical predictions is a fascinating experience. Once when astronomers predicted a total eclipse of the sun, we scheduled a vacation, packed our bags, and drove two thousand miles to better view it.

Journalists, TV news teams, and world travelers have given us reports of the inequity and insufficiency of global food supplies. The difficulties encountered in providing needed food appear overwhelming.

Many statements in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy are so arresting, incisive, pungent—so contrary to generally accepted human opinions—that they tend to set us back on our heels when we encounter them. But through them all there is a luminous atmosphere of love.

Someone once likened the Reader's position, as he reads from the desk in a Church of Christ, Scientist, to being in a plastic booth alone with God. But what about the people in the congregation? Where do they come in? Isn't the Reader a human being reading to other human beings? But if this is the case, what is going on spiritually? This was the question I had to answer when I was elected First Reader of a branch church.

Would you like to achieve something really good? Do something really worthwhile? Be of real use? Find some deeper satisfaction in the daily round of everyday living? Well, you can. Christian Science teaches that unlimited good is present to be achieved.

Man has never left spiritual perfection. The Bible assures us, "God hath made man upright.

An important step in overcoming human conflicts is to understand the absolute unity of God, divine Mind, and man, His perfect reflection, as well as to recognize the illusory nature of matter and its effects. The truth that man is spiritually at one with God is a basis for proving this fact in everyday life.

Just as some scholastic learning is obligatory in order that young people may become qualified to make their way in the world, so the learning of higher, more spiritual lessons is indispensable if we are to become truly fitted to play a more active and valuable part in our community and our world. There can, however, be no schooling without a teacher, no true learning without a guide.

If one recognizes organization as a means and not an end, he will keep it in the proper perspective and be able to use it effectively. Organization—even when divinely impelled—is human, not divine, and so eventually it will be superseded by higher means.