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Who of us has not at times been tempted to be disturbed at the aggressive persistence of the carnal, or mortal, mind, attempting through propaganda media, such as radio, television, and newspapers, to make evil seem natural and even good? Perhaps after a time we tend to become indifferent, thinking there is nothing much we can do about medical commercials, sensational news reports, and the like. Or perhaps we just try to tune them out, so to speak, thinking that if we ignore them we won't be affected by them.

In childhood we are often given things outright, but, as a rule, the further we advance in life, the more we have to earn rewards of good. The writer best remembers those rewards in his early youth earned through direct efforts rather than those things given him outright, even though they were given with love.

The world believes in many races. In turn, this is a material belief for other erroneous convictions to attach themselves to —notions of superiority and inferiority, hatred, distrust, strife, and violence.

Mrs. Eddy was asked, " Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit and matter? " She answered, "Christian Science is based on the facts of Spirit and its forms and representations, but these facts are the direct antipodes of the so-called facts of matter; and the eternal verities of Spirit assert themselves over their opposite, or matter, in the final destruction of all that is unlike Spirit.

Christ Jesus was successful in healing and teaching because he was able to lift the thought of his listeners above the evidence of the material senses. He brought a new view of God's love and purpose for man and of man's true individuality.

What is ushering? Most of us think of ushering as welcoming the stranger, seating people, giving directions, and generally being helpful inside a church edifice. Such ushering helps the service run smoothly and efficiently.

Concerning the attitude of Christian Science in relation to marriage and progeny Mrs. Eddy writes: "Until time matures human growth, marriage and progeny will continue unprohibited in Christian Science.

Today's variable economic conditions cast their shadows over many a business organization. Men with heavy family responsibilities find themselves concerned with the possibility of enforced idleness and its effects upon financial obligations.

Did you ever stop to ponder the impressive fact that Christian Science makes plain to us what we were before birth, what we actually are now, and what we shall always be? Does this mean to you—as it should— that Christian Science reveals our preexistence, our coexistence with Spirit, and our eternal existence to be one and the same thing? To emphasize the teaching of Christian Science that our eternal individual existence has no starting and no stopping, no interruption, let us utilize a portion of the definition of "death" given by Mrs. Eddy in the Glossary of Science and Health, the Christian Science textbook: "An illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue; the opposite of Life.

How spiritually thrilling it is to know that there is only one true record of oneself—a diseaseless, stainless one! This record is majestically set forth in the first chapter of Genesis: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion .