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Most of us have found that a rewarding and satisfying concept of church cannot be gained merely by attending services. The recognition of church has to be developed in individual consciousness.

No life is so vital as one placed under control of the divine will. The Bible and the lives of countless numbers of people record the works accomplished, the healings gained, the nations saved, when people turned to God.

What is the actual sphere of man? What bounds his brotherhood? Social psychology suggests that each human being surrounds himself with his own minisphere of personal concerns and his own limiting circle of friends. But, in reality, God surrounds man with an infinite sphere of Love and links every idea to every other idea with forces of Love.

"When can I find time to read the lesson with the children?" is a question often asked by parents. If they realize that the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly , read daily with their small children, is their children's needed spiritual meat, the time is found as easily as the time for three meals daily.

Holiness and wholeness are spiritual facts of God's faultless creation. Healing is the human manifestation, the appearing, of these facts.

There has lately been some conjecture whether this or that political figure has "charisma. " According to a dictionary definition, "charisma" in this sense is "a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a statesman or military commander.

"Where were you when it happened?" asks the prosecutor in a court of law; and the establishment of a genuine alibi may set the defendant free. Then how shall the Christian Scientist answer when his freedom is threatened by the sequences of accident or disease? Where was I? In a matter body, a train, automobile, plane, or elsewhere in matter? Such an admission is a great liability.

A recent newspaper column written by a medical doctor referred to an experiment in England in which some overweight women were given reducing drugs and others were given "dummy" pills. "Oddly," the physician reported, "women taking the 'dummy' pills lost weight as rapidly as those taking the real drugs, and some of them lost even faster.

One of the most famous dropouts in history, cited by Christ Jesus in a parable, was the younger son of the father who divided his living between his two sons. Tradition has since called the younger son the prodigal because he forgot his obligations and squandered what he was given.

The Christian Science Reading Room is an institution for modern times. Perhaps no other feature of the Christian Science movement illustrates more clearly the fact that this religion is one that emphasizes not only Sunday observances but constant, daily devotions wherever we may find ourselves.