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A loved one gone—the children half a country away—the last child off to school —a husband away on a business trip—a new job a thousand miles from home—a divorce. Who has not at times felt the pangs of loneliness: the emptiness, the deep longing for someone to talk to, someone to listen, someone who cares? To the lone heart Christian Science brings a reassuring and satisfying answer: You are not alone; God is with you.

"Don't rework the picture," the artist said to the student painter. "Change the frame.

Spiritual man, the likeness of God, acts; he does not react. In the truth and reality of man's being there is always action but never reaction.

Paul's awakening to the Christ set him afire. He had to spread the good news and did—throughout the eastern reaches of a pagan empire.

The quality of our thought determines the freshness of our lives and bodies, our homes and environment. Freshness, purity, harmony, and beauty are spiritual qualities emanating from the Most High.

The physical senses are so limited in scope and sensitivity that they fail to detect many structures and events. The eyes do not respond to many kinds of light, such as the ultraviolet and infrared, and the ears fail to register many sounds.

"Does Christian Science really do all the things it claims to?" The Christian Scientist, confronted with this inquiry from the stranger, may quickly affirm the healing power of his religion. But what does one say to the sick person, who, after some long struggle for healing, wearily declares, "I know it works for some, but it isn't working for me"? God is Principle, and divine Principle is expressed through unvarying law.

Shiver and shake! That's what I used to do just at the thought of giving a testimony in a Church of Christ, Scientist, at the Wednesday evening meeting! I trembled at the very idea of getting on my feet and speaking. So there I sat week after week, glued to my seat, and oh, how I wanted to get up! Through persistent effort and prayer I was eventually able to testify.

For centuries mankind has delighted in and gained inspiration from song. We read in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark that Christ Jesus and his disciples concluded their Last Supper with a hymn before leaving for the Mount of Olives, where the Master was taken into custody by the soldiers of the high priest.

Most of us know the old stereotypes of femininity: the woman driver who can't make up her mind, the wife whose political ideas echo the opinions of her husband, and so forth. Men too, of course, are victims of this sexually limited view of humanity.