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Christ Jesus helped people where they were. He healed the sick.

In the Bible is a thought stirring record of the awakening of a people's thinking from despair to achievement and the consequent rebuilding of the visible symbol of their national identity—the temple. The kingdom of Judah had fallen, and for many years its people had been exiles in Babylonia.

The great Nazarene, Christ Jesus, fully manifested the spiritual light and might of meekness. Renunciation of self-power and complete obedience to the will of God made Jesus' consciousness the actual embodiment of the divine will and of its intelligence and power.

"I serve as librarian in a Christian Science Reading Room located near a large concentration of hippies," says a member of Twentieth Church of Christ, Scientist, Los Angeles, California. "One day three of these young people, two boys and a girl, were walking by the Reading Room.

Christ Jesus accepted his challenges as opportunities. Leprosy, blindness, a withered hand, and even death challenged his sense of Life, but he healed the lepers, opened the blind eyes, restored the hand, and raised the dead.

What is required of one who wishes to write religious articles for Christian Science publications? Searching for a fuller comprehension of God as All and man as His perfect image, or idea, will aid the aspiring writer. It is essential first to understand that God—Love, Spirit, Soul, Principle—is the only Mind and author and that man is His reflection.

Mrs. Eddy tells us, "Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning.

Through self-forgetfulness we can discard a material sense of self. This false sense argues that man is a fallible human being capable of good but also liable to sharp practice in the pursuit of his own self-interest.

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 Mrs. Eddy makes this statement: "Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can.

Many are unaware of the present great need for more Christian Science nurses. When the writer was recently reminded of this need, her deep gratitude for the privilege of this work impelled her to answer the above question in the form of this article.