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Just as we expect to see improvement and progress in the areas of body, home, or business because of our application of spiritual law as learned in Christian Science, so we should expect to see improvement and progress in our church experience. A maturing concept of Church must appear as a sound, healthy, and expanding human expression.

Dear Friend, What a privilege to answer your joyful letter and to share some "gleanings and guidelines," as you express it! You mention that with your family still at home and your practice of Christian Science unfolding, you are needing to watch that you give ample time and care to your family. These two activities are mutually helpful.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse typifies the divine method of warfare in Science, and the glorious results of this warfare.

As long as we believe we are human beings, it is vital to the harmony of our experience and to our spiritual progress that we understand we have a God-bestowed heritage of divine ideas. To be saved from harmful thinking, the human consciousness, through the study of Christian Science, must be taught to acknowledge the supremacy, yes, the allness, of the one, divine Mind.

We all have legitimate human needs. Some of us need to be freed from a sense of fear, inadequacy, sin, disease, or grief; others of us may need companionship, a purpose, employment, or a home.

How important it is in every department of human experience to reject the false and gain the correct view! One of the reasons given for Abraham Lincoln's greatness was his readiness to abandon views proved false and accept new and truer views without loss of dignity. Christian Science is revolutionary as well as revelational in its clear presentation of the facts of true being.

Even in the midst of unprecedented economic expansion, many fear that reversal is inevitable. But Christian Science teaches men to look beyond matter to Spirit and find that in the divine economy there is no recession of good.

Once there walked among men a marvelous young man whose thinking remained in heaven. Among those who accepted his word, peace broke out: the peace of health replaced the discord of disease, the peace of calm stilled the fury of the storm, the peace of forgiveness regenerated the tormented sinner.

The beginning of Christ Jesus' momentous ministry was heralded by God's statement of a glorious fact: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. " Matt.

Many of us can remember when Christmas was a very simply observed religious holiday. Pageants depicting the birth of Jesus, the singing of carols, the Christmas tree, and a simple exchange of gifts characterized the festivities.