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When members of a branch church or society give a Christian Science lecture in the community, they invite their neighbors, friends and strangers alike, to share a feast of Love. Jesus illustrated this sharing of spiritual truth when he turned the water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee.

Listening for God's guidance spiritualizes one and improves his experience by turning him away from materiality and a finite, limited sense of being. It is prayer, for this listening and hearing is not with the physical ear.

In a world of constantly changing economic conditions and values, many people are concerned as to their future prospects regarding employment, the cost of living, and other factors tending to affect their way of life. In such circumstances it can be helpful to ask oneself, "Does God change?" In Christian Science one learns that nothing can interfere with God's constant harmonious government of His spiritual creation, including man, whom He maintains with unerring wisdom and love.

God's laws, the laws maintaining the harmonious order of His perfect universe, are here to be brought out in daily living. There is no guesswork in this demonstration.

It was a Sunday afternoon on a highway out West. I was en route to California.

Have you sometimes felt that you were being pressured by an impressive or dominating tutor to argue for something you didn't believe in? Are you easily fazed by brilliant minds? Do you feel uneasy about accepting a scholarship from an organization whose basic standards you can't fully agree with? Do religion and the spirit of free inquiry seem to you incompatible? Most of us involved in academic life have come up against some of these questions. Many thoughtful people bring their talents and ideas forward at a university or college hoping to see them refined for service to humanity.

When one awakes to the divine authority by which man lives, he will no longer fear that disease can kill him, and the myth of incurability will be disproved. In Christian Science one learns that there is no life in matter, for Life is God.

We can be uplifted and blessed by dwelling on what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. " II Cor.

"Few believe that Christian Science contains infinitely more than has been demonstrated, or that the altitude of its highest propositions has not yet been reached. " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

If we ask ourselves the blunt question Do I pray enough? can many of us conscientiously answer Yes? It may seem difficult always to give sufficient time to effective praying when the busyness of modern living makes great demands on our time and attention. But prayer should be, and is, the most important activity of our daily living.