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One who is spiritually wise is careful about the kind of influence he responds to. True influence is the influence of the Christ, Truth, that persuades one to do the will of God.

A challenge that confronts many Christian Scientists is the severe illness of some member of the family who is not a Christian Scientist. We know, having happily proved it, that Christian Science heals, yet here mortal mind would have us struggle with a sense of self-condemnation because we have failed to get the message across and there seems to be somebody outside our concept of the healing Christ, outside because of his dependence on material rather than spiritual medicine.

Who forgives sins? And what is the process of forgiveness? Christ Jesus once said to a man suffering from palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. " Mark 2:5; Then, perceiving that some of the scribes were reasoning that only God could forgive sins, he asked: "Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

All active members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, have opportunities to read aloud. Readings from the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mrs.

Everyone engaged in business would like his business experience to be harmonious and successful. However, too often his ventures seem frustrating or fruitless.

Christ Jesus understood that God is infinite Spirit, the only Life. He knew that man's real, spiritual being is the perfect expression of Life.

"God is not separate from the wisdom He bestows," Science and Health, p. 6; writes Mrs.

Resurrection, to the student of Christian Science, is more than a distant event recorded in Christian history. It is more even than the vivid final triumph over death by a living Way-shower who expected his followers to do the same.

The healing method of Christian Science relies upon God to separate the mental causes of disease from the patient. Other mental healing methods may attempt to make this separation by getting the human mind to change in some way, but Christian Science recognizes that God, by His very nature, separates evil from good.

Nahum came from a town named Elkosh, which although not yet identified may have had some connection with the Galilean Capernaum—"village of Nahum. " In Hebrew, his name is associated with "comfort.