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Sometimes when mulling over unsolved problems, this question comes, "Why doesn't God help me more?" We may wonder, when our prayers are sincere, why we don't see quicker and better results from them. Feeling apart from God's help and separated from Him is a mental hell.

For many years I tried to be uncritical. The critical person is generally thought of as one who indulges in mere faultfinding and censure.

One morning, a Christian Science practitioner received a message from someone who apparently had been severely hurt by a very heavy piece of machinery falling on him. The neighbor who conveyed the message said the man had managed to crawl free but was lying on the ground semiconscious.

If we assume that life and intelligence are in the human body, we may conclude that God comes into the framework of human organization in which our bodies participate. We then tend to work out our organizational relationships with the expectancy that they have God's sanction.

We can boldly disagree with the lie claiming that a material body is our life and substance. God's righteous law is based on the science of true being—its spirituality, eternity, and complete harmony.

Two brothers once lived and played together in the remote backwoods. Both boys were accomplished woodsmen.

The understanding of true cause and law is fundamental to spiritual progress. Christian Science teaches that we determine the nature of our experience, form our bodies, evolve our universe, by what we know and understand cause and law to be.

How do we deal with, or heal, fears and apprehensions that may seem present in our thought? Christian Science teaches that there is only one Mind, one consciousness, and that is God, infinite good. His thoughts alone are real.

Is it really possible to be perfect? Is it desirable? Christian Science answers both these questions with a scientific yes. It reveals the spiritual basis upon which Christ Jesus proved perfection to be the very essence of all real being.

The judgment of James at the Jerusalem Council (see Acts 15:13-21) was followed by another encouraging gesture on the part of the Jerusalem church. They sealed their approval of the work of Paul and Barnabas by sending with them to Antioch two of their number—Judas called Barsabas, thought by some scholars to be the brother of Joseph Barsabas mentioned in Acts 1:23—and Silas, sometimes called Silvanus.