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Many are familiar with the story concerning the Greek god Achilles, whose mother dipped him in the river Styx to achieve his invulnerableness to fatal weapons. Because she held him by one of his heels while dipping him in the river, this part of his body, not covered by the protective fluid, was his only vulnerable point.

When I was a young student of Christian Science, I had difficulty in harmonizing Mrs. Eddy's "scientific statement of being" —including its declaration that "there is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter" Science and Health, p.

The new or comparatively new student of Christian Science is likely at some time to ask himself, "When shall I be fit to heal others?" The question is important because it relates to a stage of maturity he desires to reach. But it is even more important because it implies that one is progressing in loving more actively.

The measure of an education in the various sciences of human knowledge is what one knows, while the test of one's education in technology, or applied science, is what he can do. In Christian Science one is educated in Science and applied Science, whether it be in Primary class teaching or in his daily study.

A special characteristic of Mary Baker Eddy was the universality of her love. To her, love was not a finite, personal thing, to be showered upon some and withheld from others.

A Christian Science lecture for young people—in the park? Yes, said members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Miami, Florida. If that's where the young people congregate, that's where we'll go.

In whatever direction men look they behold evidence of extraordinary development in almost every field of human interest and endeavor. No one need be told that never before in human history has there been so broad, so deep, so rapid an expansion of knowledge, of invention, of discovery, of adaptation, of utilization.

I guess it started with the idea that if we really loved man we would go to people in their different neighborhoods and not just hope they would come to us. It wasn't so much the idea of turning people into Christian Scientists but of meeting their needs right where they were and giving them new hope.

Today, when space venturing has made men feel closer to the stars than ever before, a great number of thinkers are finding vast, practical enlightenment in the divine metaphysics that is impelling this intensified probing of the physical universe. Through the action of His law in Christian Science, God, who is infinite Spirit, or Mind, has revealed the purely spiritual nature of the universe and of man as His own infinite image and likeness, or reflection.

What do we come to church to see, Principle or person? Do we come to see a performance, the way the Readers look, move, enunciate? Do we come to see personal preachers? The Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, are our preachers —they are the messenger and the message, preparing, step by step, the way for the Christ, Truth, to unfold in us.