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With the many opportunities for giving during the holiday season, how natural it is to think of giving the gift of healing as found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The Publisher's Office regularly hears from people who are sharing the book, and recently received a letter from a member of The Mother Church in Westlake Village, California, who has volunteered to work with this Office to place Science and Health in local bookstores.

Courtnay Douglas, a member of the Journal, Sentinel, and Herald Editorial staff, reports on a recent visit to Boston of an enthusiastic group of young people with a mission. A year ago, the pupils in the Sunday School at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle, Washington, were asked, "What is the pastor of Christian Science?" When they didn't have answers, the members of the Sunday School were presented with the idea, which they decided to work on, of an extracurricular project to read biographies of Mary Baker Eddy in order to get background that would help them answer this question.

We do it all the time—number the people. The news media constantly publish the results of polls on topics ranging from the popularity of political candidates, to the state of people's finances, to their daily habits.

A new baby, children in college, loss of employment, big mortgage expenses, high cost of living, unwise investments, relatives in need—such situations sometimes drain people's financial resources, telling them it's time to worry, or to keep worrying! I've found that if I have time to worry, I have time to pray. And I've also discovered that while worry brings no solution, consecrated prayer brings to light a definite and appropriate solution, whatever the problem.

Around the time of my university graduation, I went to visit a Christian Science practitioner about what seemed an overwhelming problem. I was suffering from an eating disorder.

Are you waiting for things to get better? Someone with a tedious job awaits vacation. The harried parent looks forward to a time when the children will become more responsible.

It is humbling to consider the purity of the Virgin Mary's thought, which permitted the conception of Jesus. Matthew's Gospel bears record to the fact that before she was married to Joseph, "she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

If only I was married/not married to him/her, had/didn't have this/that job, lived/didn't live here/there, had/hadn't said this/that, bought/ sold sooner/later.

The Bible assures us that God is Love. Man, made in God's image and likeness, therefore embodies the invariable laws of Love, which never fail.

In a moment of spiritual awakening, years of sin, disease, and suffering have been known to disappear. How? Through a clear recognition that sin and suffering are never a part of God's spiritual man—never a part of our true being.