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It’s interesting to note that the early Christian Church strove for unity. It seems that the early church leaders realized that dissent and inharmony, more than anything else, could undermine the spread of genuine Christianity.

In the early 1900s a family relative became a Christian Science practitioner in St. Louis.

Many are at least somewhat familiar with the biblical account, beginning in Exodus, of Moses leading the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt toward the Promised Land—Canaan, promised by God to Abraham, who would be made “a father of many nations” (see Genesis 17:1–8 ). All along the way God guided the children of Israel, protected them, fed them, and taught them about His nature and relation to them.

Have you ever heard the expression, “For one look at error take ten looks at Truth”? It comes from a statement that William P. McKenzie attributed to Mary Baker Eddy, “For one look at error take ten at the ideal Christ” (“ The uplifted ideal ,” September 1904, Journal ).

The Psalmist talks of worshiping the Lord in “the beauty of holiness” ( Psalms 29:2, 96:9 ). For years I’ve wondered what that meant.

Trusting God’s unfoldment has been one of the hardest things for me to do because I’ve always been a planner. Wanting to see the end from the beginning.

I have much appreciated reading reminiscences of those who lived in Mary Baker Eddy’s household, and learning of how she encouraged her students to become stronger metaphysical workers. In particular, reading Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, and We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volumes 1 and 2, has greatly helped me get to know her life story better and gain a better understanding of her primary work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

As a child, our family holidays were always spent at the seaside, usually in the north of Scotland. I always wanted to be able to swim but for various reasons never learned.

After learning even just a little about what Christian Science teaches of God’s, divine Spirit’s, reality and all-presence, one’s thoughts might naturally overflow with profound happiness. What heartening, wonderful news: Spirit and its manifestation, which is wholly good, actually makes up the entirety of existence! As one then continues to investigate Spirit’s utter all-presence and nature and, more importantly, begins to integrate this spiritual understanding into daily life through experiences of healing, one can’t help but feel prompted to deeply examine the corollary that Spirit’s opposite, matter, must be an illusion.

Christ Jesus gave his followers a command to heal the sick (see Matthew 10:8 ), and he was always communicating God’s will. And a loving God would never ask of us something we were not properly prepared to accomplish.