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Understanding our real selfhood in God is essential to the maintenance of true health. When we look at ourselves spiritually, we gain the only genuine picture of ourselves as man, the perfect, spiritual idea of God.

When Mrs. Eddy gave its final, full name to the textbook that she wrote to explain and establish her discovery of Christian Science, she decided upon the title, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

This title describes the whereabouts of the All-God. And what a happy moment for us all when we get our first glimpse of God's all-encircling, all-pervading presence and man's inseparable unity with Him! This glimmer of Truth, momentary though it may be, is a turning point in our growth Spiritward.

Who would buy a great master's painting and remove the artist's signature? Regardless of how beautifully an idea is expressed on canvas, a painting that loses the artist's signature loses part of its value. The connoisseur of art in no way worships a great artist, but he holds as tremendous a respect for the genius of the painter as he does for the masterpiece that has been produced.

When Paul rose from the ground after his vision, he found he was blind. He had to be guided by his companions the rest of the way to Damascus, where he remained, fasting and in darkness, for three days.

"You may try, but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl. " These words uttered by Princess Halm-Eberstein to Daniel in George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda may well have reflected the author's own feelings on the subject.

Students of Christian Science cannot afford to separate words from the thoughts they represent. The divinely established facts presented in their textbooks, the Bible, and Science and Health by Mrs.

Fear, timidity, and self-consciousness seemed to be my unchangeable and undesirable characteristics, stifling my progress in life. I appeared to be their helpless victim, left with no alternative but to bow to their tyranny.

To help me overcome a condition of impaired eyesight, I had called a practitioner. I felt frustrated because of inability to spend long periods of time studying the Bible Lessons In the Christian Science Quarterly; and reading all the Christian Science periodicals.

Just what is moral courage? Fundamentally it is integrity maintained regardless of the cost. It is the quality that compels a person to put aside selfish expediency and express the ethical, honest, and virtuous.