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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.

Been elected Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist? Or are you president of your church or a committee chairman, and do you give readings and reports at meetings? Ideally, what do you hope people will get from your reading most of all? Healing? New direction? At least some gleam of inspiration? If we're to read with spiritual inspiration, we must start not with self but with God. "The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man," Science and Health , p.

Sometimes a beginning student in Christian Science hears much about animal magnetism, or the belief that evil is real and powerful—about what it has done and can do to him. Perhaps he begins to fear it.

If some Christian Scientists are accustomed to thinking that church fellowship is an outmoded, other-denominational concept they have progressed beyond, they are wrong. It is true that there is no provision in their church for Sunday night socials, men's clubs, and sewing circles.

I once went through a period when articles I hopefully sent to the Editors of the Christian Science periodicals were consistently rejected. I talked the situation over with my teacher in Christian Science, who asked, "Have you thought of your writing as an expression of love for your readers?" When I saw writing as an opportunity to love, I sat right down and wrote about an experience that had proved to me that scientific prayer can nullify in moments the threat of unavoidable evil.