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A new student of Christian Science attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. She was struggling with a severe chest cold, and after several disturbing seizures of sneezing and coughing during the service, she gasped in a whisper to a woman sitting next to her, "Perhaps I shouldn't have come to church tonight.

In considering what is and what is not substance, it would be helpful to determine what we mean by substance. Substance is usually considered to be the essential part, or essence, of a thing.

The Mother Church is like a great tree with many sturdy branches and many beautiful leaves. It matters little how far outstretched a branch or leaf may be, it grows out from the tree and the tree supports it.

One of the most significant points of Amos' teaching is his stress upon the necessity of righteousness and justice. His book has been described as constituting "a cry for justice.

The first chapter of Genesis gives the true record of the creation of man as God's likeness, the perfect handiwork of the eternal and only creator, and this record is a vivid history of man's changeless status of spiritual harmony, dominion, and completeness. Many people can testify to the fact that as they have come to understand this true Scriptural concept of being and have accepted it for themselves, discord in their experience has been dissipated and they have demonstrated the availability of spiritual sustenance.

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.