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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.

The conscientious Christian, loving God and man, feels responsibility for his less fortunate brother. He yearns to help him war against and overcome his enslaving limitations and sufferings.

As the avowed followers of Mrs. Eddy, Christian Scientists are trained to look beyond the modes of healing taught by material systems.

In giving what she termed "the song of Christian Science," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was summarizing what had been a theme of her life from childhood. "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work— work—work—watch and pray.

In the Manual of The Mother Church Mrs. Eddy makes four stipulations for those who qualify to serve in the Reading Rooms of The Mother Church.

The idea of a resort for spiritual restoration is as old as the knowledge of the one God. "Be thou my strong habitation, where unto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress," Ps.