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In the study and practice of Christian Science we can begin to comprehend the difference between mortal thoughts (sometimes erroneously assumed to be ideas, though they counterfeit the true) and spiritual ideas, which proceed from God, divine Mind. We become more and more willing and able to exchange what appear to be mortal thoughts or objects for spiritual concepts.

To pray for the recovery of the sick without understanding the scientific fact revealed in Christian Science that disease is unreal can be a vain exercise. This Science restores to Christianity its vital element of healing.

Many people would like to bring out originality and freshness of thought in their daily activities. The opportuities for creative expression are not confined to the arts and sciences but can be found in even the most humble task.

In the Bible we have the stories of two gardens—one a myth; the other a historical happening. In the Garden of Eden in the first book of the Old Testament we find the first fabled self-assertion of a mortal will.

The belief that matter can supply love, happiness, health, the good life, seems to mesmerize the world; yet in truth it offers nothing. This mistaken gross materialism appears to have engendered pollution at every level of the mental, moral, and physical environment.

With Aquila and Priscilla, and possibly Silas and Timothy, Paul set out for Cenchreae, the port of Corinth, for the journey to Antioch in Syria (see Acts 18:18-22). The significance of Paul's vow mentioned here is uncertain; it may have been a modification of the strict Nazarite vow referred to in Numbers 6:1—21, for religious vows were not then uncommon.

Does life begin with material conception? Are chance and happenstance involved with creation? Are the many forms of life simply the products of complicated physical genetic interactions that have been taking place for countless aeons? Is life material, and is it under the control of a complex array of material laws? In Christian Science we are taught that God, Life, expresses Himself in life that is spiritual and eternal; in other words, without beginning or ending. Man in God's image has always been, is now, and will ever be at one with Him.

How are we supporting the periodical publications of our church? Buying them? Reading them? Writing for them? Distributing them? Excellent! But how do we do these things? Simply doing these things may in fact be achieving little, because we may be identifying ourselves to a considerable extent with limited mortality having necessarily limited objectives, that is, to support a limited concept we call church. It is when these activities become God-centered rather than just humanly directed that they correspondingly become more inspired and more fruitful.

The Bible abounds with references to angels. To those unacquainted with Christian Science such phenomena may appear in this day and age to be nebulous.

Healing can result through obedience to the Manual of The Mother Church. In the Manual Mrs.