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The enterprises the human mind directs its efforts to are often undeserving of those efforts. Too often they lack the vital ingredient of idealism.

Today opportunities for practical prayer are encountered in every walk of life. God's opportunities come to consciousness as the challenge to think and act rightly.

The metaphysical healing system of Christian Science exacts of its practitioner moral rectitude, purity of thought, as a prerequisite to its successful practice. Indeed, it should be said that spiritual goodness, as exemplified by Christ Jesus in thought, word, and act, must characterize the life of one who would offer himself as a practitioner of Christian Science.

One Bible account of the experience of Christ Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane records him as saying, "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. " Luke 22:42; Referring to this experience, Mrs.

"Experience is victor, never the vanquished," writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, "and out of defeat comes the secret of victory. " Miscellaneous Writings, p.

In a southern town, where only a few Christian Scientists lived, a Christian Science practitioner and her husband came to settle. With everyone pulling together, the Christian Science Society, organized on and off for sixty years, soon became a Church of Christ, Scientist, and even moved to a bright new edifice.

Probably the most characteristic, and in many ways the most interesting, production of the wise men or sages of Israel is the book of Job. The Interpreter's Bible cites the poet Tennyson's description of it as "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times.

Christian Science reveals the spiritual laws governing all relationships, the laws which assure that all ideas throughout God's wondrous universe relate to each other in order and harmony. Since in the realm of contemporary human concepts there seem to be many instances of discordant and dislocated relationships, mental and physical, it is a blessing to realize that the spiritual forces that hold the universe and its ideas in joyous harmony are available for mankind to grasp and utilize.

Suppose a conductor has selected a new work for his orchestra to perform. He will have in mind his ideal for the performance of it, but if we were to listen in on rehearsals, we would not immediately hear that ideal come to life.

Are we truly aware of our innocence?