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There are many references to music throughout Mrs. Eddy's writings, and she has given music an important place in our church services.

What Christian Scientist doesn't long to see his branch church or society better attended? Not because the mere filling of seats is the objective but because there's so much for his church to give and all too few of humanity's billions are awake to the fact that they have a share in this giving. What member doesn't long to see much more response to Christian Science lectures, radio programs, Reading Rooms, literature distribution, The Christian Science Monitor? Why, one might ask, when members work and pray so hard and the world's need is so great, do these church activities seem to have relatively little impact on public thought? The Gospel of Luke records Christ Jesus' reaction when one of his hearers remarked, "Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

While a shepherd watched over his flock in the lonely desert, he came upon a strange thing. He saw a bush burning with fire but not consumed, and he turned aside to see why.

No one likes to be pushed. Resistance is the normal reaction.

All that is included in God is perfect. Perfect God as cause, or infinite Principle, includes perfect effect, or man.

We are inclined to personalize our faculties, our abilities, and our seeming disabilities. We speak of "my sight," "my hearing," "my ability" to do this or that.

Not since the seventeenth century have subjects been taught in the university that would today be considered occult. Not, at any rate, until our own time.

Early in my experience in Christian Science I realized how wonderfully the Wednesday testimony meeting bears witness to God's goodness and the healing power of His Word. So I resolved to attend regularly.

While calmly seated in the living room, I was once startled by a crash. Fifteen pounds of weights had dropped to the floor inside the grandfather clock.

Morality is the fundamental element of civilization. It is civilization's essence; the cement of society.