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"Inseparability, clearly understood, is fundamental to your successful practice of Christian Science. " This was said by a Christian Science practitioner to an enthusiastic young student.

If you attend Wednesday testimony meetings in a Church of Christ, Scientist, are you often disturbed by the feeling that these services could be improved? Are you irritated or depressed by the thought that more testimonies should be given—or that the ones given should include more specific healings instead of so much metaphysical talk—or that the ones given usually contain too many details of experiences and not enough spiritual truths? Does it worry you that there are those who testify more than they should and others who hardly ever testify but should? Are you apprehensive about the effect of these services on young people and visitors? Most people who attend the testimony meetings have surely felt troubled occasionally. They want them to be inspired and effective.

Once while watching a cat I learned a valuable lesson on how to express love. Some friends of mine, who were professional cat breeders, had among their many cats one that was extremely unfriendly and nasty to all the other cats.

When you read a fine metaphysical article, do you perhaps say to yourself, "I wish I'd written that"'? And then do you immediately think, "But I never could"? Well, you're right. That article was an individual expression of that author's study, prayer, and demonstration.

In the Bible we find many records of healings taking place through complete reliance on spiritual means alone. In the Biblical records of Christ Jesus' healing ministry, for example, there is no mention of his ever using material remedies.

Have you ever thought how important currents are? There are currents of water, currents of air, currents of thought, and so on. They mold our lives; they mold history.

The Passover, the most solemn religious feast of the Hebrew calendar, was drawing near, and people from all directions were arriving in Jerusalem for the occasion. During the many generations since the night of the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt, which the Passover commemorated, a number of innovations had come to be associated with the ancient ceremony.

My individual approach to the study of the Lesson-Sermon begins with prayer— prayer for receptivity and inspiration and a denial of animal magnetism in the form of dullness, apathy, resistance, or interference. I also include gratitude for our Leader's provision for these "divinely authorized" Lesson-Sermons so lovingly prepared by the Bible Lesson Committee.

What words are more poignant than, "He (or she) always understands"? Understanding is a quality we yearn for and appreciate most in a relative, a friend, or anyone especially close. And don't we in turn want to be the one who understands? Today the reasons and emotions behind the acts of others are of enormous interest to many of us.

In the country where the writer lives one can still see old castles and admire remnants of old town walls. Castle and town walls were very firmly built and were very thick.