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If one becomes lost in a wilderness area, the picture may be one of desperation, emptiness, and loneliness. On the other hand, one may find previously untapped resources: fortitude, endurance, and hope.

When worldly beliefs become more and more aggressive and obnoxious, it becomes obvious that we can't stand on the sidelines in the contest between good and evil. It's essential to exercise our spiritual power and burnish anew the armaments of Spirit.

One of the surest ways not to be spiritually healed of believing in the reality of an inharmonious physical condition is to keep looking to see how it's coming along. This is like engaging in a tug-of-war by pulling at both ends at the same time—as though there were two you's: one, a mortal suffering from a matter affliction; the other, the spiritual idea of God, who, as the Father's child, could never be touched by any sense of physicality or suffering.

A little chap was disobedient and was sent to his room by his mother, who admonished him to think of God. He knew how to do this because he was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School.

"Celebrate" means to hold up for acclaim. Christian Science acclaims the everpresence and goodness of God.

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.