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A woman recognized the need of Elisha, the great prophet, for a place apart, where he could rest during his journeyings. "And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

Accepting the opportunity for Readership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, brings one to the threshold of a new experience. Spiritual education will be continually broadening his view, awakening his thought to further progress.

Is your home a place? Some may answer: "Yes, it is. Not only I but my family have lived in the same place for generations.

The real activity of every individual is living the Christ. Whatever our human occupation may be, we shall find ourselves happy and successful when we fulfill this true mission, when we express the Christly qualities that constitute our real identity.

It is not presumptuous for a sincere student of Christian Science to aspire to its public practice. His growing understanding of the Science of Christianity arouses an irresistible urge to share the good he receives.

There is nothing quite so reassuring as working out the problems of a human sense of existence through the study and application of Christian Science. Whatever problem may arise, Christian Science enables us to challenge it with dominion and fearlessness.

Each individual's human experience is the outward expression of his sense of values, or, in other words, of what he values enough to take into his consciousness. The importance we place on everything that touches our experience quite naturally determines its consequence in our lives.

In Christian Science we learn the meaning of sacrifice and its reward. What must we sacrifice? Science assures us that nothing real can ever be sacrificed; we can sacrifice only a sense of limitation, the false sense of self in matter, the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are material.

Being the image of his Father, man actually has, and therefore we should claim, only that spiritual selfhood which is the exact likeness of God, Spirit. The supposition that there is another self, a mortal self, proves false from the outset, for therein can be found no resemblance to Truth, no relationship to that perfect Life which is God.

A systematic method of study is important in all branches of learning for those who would acquire knowledge and use it. This is certainly true in the study of Christian Science, which enables one to know God and to utilize His healing laws.