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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.

Is it ever God's plan for us that mental errors should accumulate in our consciousness and immobilize us with physical suffering of some sort—even, perhaps, after years of good work on our part? It most definitely is not. Divine Love can keep our thought free from unhealthy accumulations and can keep us well! This is one of the things that Christian Science teaches us to demonstrate.

The state of what union? The one formed by uniting states, societies, things? A trade or labor organization of workmen? None of these. I'm talking about the union without a beginning.

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.