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The spiritual facts of being, which exist in Mind, God, are counterfeited by the false beliefs of the carnal, or mortal, mind. One of these beliefs is that the functions and faculties of the body are controlled by nerves, and that disturbances in the nervous system result in diseases of various types.

On the day following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. , a deeply saddened white man opened his copy of The Christian Science Monitor.

When the Easter "invasion" of vacationing college students rolled in over Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last spring, at least one group of local inhabitants were truly delighted to see it come: the Christian Scientists of Greater Fort Lauderdale. They had even set up a temporary joint Reading Room for them right across from the beach.

The two books now known as Ezra and Nehemiah in the King James Version were originally compiled as a single volume of uncertain date, probably about 350 B. C.

Even a degree of spiritual understanding compels social awareness, responsibility, and action. An increasing understanding of Christian Science leads one naturally to expand his horizons until all mankind are included in one healing affection.

Mother love is one of the most admirable forms of human expression. By it a mother reflects a measure of the loving care of Father-Mother God.

The master Christian, Christ Jesus, had only one ambition: to do the will of his Father, to please and glorify Him. He said, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.

In the advertising business, creativity is at a premium. Artists and writers are hired —and fired—because of their creative performance.

How much application has the second commandment in the Mosaic Decalogue for us today? We are not likely to kneel in worship before an image-god, sacrifice to the sun or the moon, or propitiate ancient deities believed to inhabit the seas. This commandment specifically says: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

In recent years we have read and heard a great deal about what is known as the discovery method in education. This term refers to the approach that is being applied, often quite successfully, in teaching many subjects, including physics, chemistry, and mathematics, so that students are helped to discover certain basic relationships for themselves instead of having them explained or demonstrated to them in a dogmatic fashion by their teachers.