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How many times have we called on a Christian Science practitioner to help us with a problem and then sat back and waited for our healing? True, the healing often comes when we are receptive and expectant of it, but unless we do our part in the prayerful work involved, we may be missing something. The spiritual progress resulting from this work is what we really should be seeking.

How can we be more free of the damaging propensities we so often see in ourselves and others: personal domination and tyranny, deceit and hatred, feelings of inadequacy and fear? By turning to God, Spirit, who is all-powerful, infinite good, the only creator. By reasoning that man and the universe must be spiritual and perfect, governed by God's law of harmonious action.

It can be helpful for the student of Christian Science to examine himself from time to time to see how he is progressing spiritually. Progress in Christian Science is not measured by the number of years one has been a student of this Science.

A mediocre, poorly patronized restaurant, closed many weeks for alterations, finally reopened, resplendent with fresh paint, new furniture and fixtures, and an attractive outdoor sign. In the front window, flanked by baskets of flowers, a large placard announced: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT As a Christian Scientist who daily passed that corner stopped to admire the new decor on opening day, the familiar words of the placard suddenly took on new meaning.

Can a man look a wild tiger in the eye and see it retreat before him? A nineteenth century British officer and administrator told of having this experience in the Mahableshwur hills in Western India. "By looking a tiger fearlessly in the eye," Mrs.

Wistful words from a popular song suggest some important truths. The words are, "Would it spoil some vast eternal plan, if I were a wealthy man?" Lyrics of "If I Were A Rich Man," by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, from the production fiddler on the roof, © 1964, Sunbeam Music, Inc.

God, the one Mind, has total dominion over all His ideas in the one real universe, the spiritual. Man's dominion is Mind's gift to him as its reflection.

The days of Christ Jesus' career were hastening on toward the crucifixion. Having concluded the main substance of his prophetic address to his disciples on the Mount of Olives, he went on to enforce his teaching by the use of illustrations, which might be called parables of preparedness.

One day I decided I couldn't go on just reading that lesson. It had to mean something to me.

Care by loving-hearted people of those in need is as old as humanity. Divine Love ever demands—and impels—this service.