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What am I doing teaching a Sunday School class? That question hit me one Sunday morning on the way to my class. Not the best timing, but there it was.

Gratitude is a valuable perfume costing nothing, available to all yet too often unused. Its redeeming power is great and its influence far-reaching.

Most people believe that the brain is the seat of intelligence. Christian Science challenges this belief.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

It is often asked, If there is a God and He is good, why does He permit the destructive forces of the earth to exist? In Christian Science we learn that the only right answer to this query is that He does not. Misfortunes, which seem so real and frightening to the material senses, are not actually real.

Picture a household where each member adheres to moral law and contributes to happy companionship by deferring to the others' wishes. Such an unselfish atmosphere develops contented, balanced individuals.

There is only one prayer that is ever answered—the prayer to know God. He is our one real need.

Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question "What are body and Soul?" provides a thought-provoking definition of man's spiritual identity.

Early in my study of Christian Science I was challenged by a remark that shocked me into serious thinking about the Lesson-Sermon—the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly that is the basis of all Christian Science Sunday services. During a dinner table conversation in a college dormitory, a faculty member turned to me suddenly and said, "I don't see how Christian Science can ever succeed without personal preaching!" My reply was brief, but in the quiet of my own room afterward, I mentally dug my heels into the ground in defense of my impersonal pastor.

It is very significant that the most effective man who ever walked this earth said, "I can of mine own self do nothing. " John 5:30 Jesus was not merely making some meek statement of self-effacement.