In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Prayer and Fasting

It is recorded in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of St.

Forbearance

The tendency to believe that evil is real is responsible for needless unhappiness and suffering in the experience of mortals.

"Song, sermon, or Science"

Who has not felt his thought uplifted by some beautiful song or melody?

Scientific Being

Christian Science reveals the truth of being.

Signs of the Times

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In your issue of April 24 appears a brief report of a visiting pastor's sermon in which he refers to Christian Science as depicting "an emasculated Christ.
The views of a bishop on Christian Science, as reported in your issue of the 18th inst.
There appeared in your issue of March 15 an article in which the writer quoted a remark referring to Christian Science as a superstition.
May I again ask space to answer a letter in your issue of May 19?
The healing activity of the Christian Scientist has nothing to do with suggestion, but it is an affirmative prayer of thanks to God.
When problems confront us, no matter what their nature, we have an ever present help in solving them if we will apply the great truths stated in the Bible and in the Christian Science textbook.

Talent

How often we hear it regretfully said, "Oh, if I only had the talent that others have!" Mortals, lacking an understanding of the cause of all things, have concluded that talent is a result of either heredity or chance—both beyond their control—and that those who have talent, being more favored, are more likely to succeed, and more able to enjoy themselves than are others.