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Editors' Note: Eighty years ago a Christian Scientist in North Carolina, Mary Hatch Harrison, did some valuable research into historical facts connected with the death of George Washington Glover, Mrs. Eddy's first husband.

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Each of us is infinitely more than a spot of consciousness incarcerated in a material body, apparently at the mercy of matter. This illusion that man is physical and finite, which seems to bind mankind, results from ignorance of his real nature and from a misconception of what life really is.

The new member's face glowed as the other church members welcomed her. It was the first time she had joined a branch Church of Christ, Scientist.

What enabled Christ Jesus to heal through spiritual means alone? A deep study of the Bible reveals that the Master's healing power flowed from his great goodness and love for mankind. It was, in fact, his Godlikeness—his God-inspired expression of divine qualities— that was the source of his unparalleled power to do good and to relieve humanity's sufferings.

There can be nothing apart from infinity, nothing additional to omnipresence. Whatever seems to be, yet differs from God's loving presence and perfection, is illusion.

A Christian Scientist is spiritually alert to discern disease as an error of belief rather than as the physical malady it appears to be. The Christian Science nurse especially needs to know that physical sickness hints at a diseased or limited state of thought and that both the physical disorder and the mortal mentality are suggestions only.

Harmony is a priceless ingredient in relationships of every kind. Nowhere is it more precious than in family life, where intimacy sometimes tends to develop an exaggerated awareness of others' dispositional frailties.

How much more there is to calling a Christian Science practitioner than just dialing a number and making a request of the person who answers! The healing Christ, Truth, is always present with its message of comfort, and both the caller and the practitioner are reaching out for this needed message. When the thought of the practitioner is so inspired that any argument of evil is recognized as an illusion, and the caller has humbled the human mind to a state of receptivity, often there is an immediate healing.

All afternoon and on into the night a relatively new Christian Science practitioner had been earnestly praying for a patient with an urgent problem. Through communion with divine Love she had seen through each mortal fear involved in the case and had vigorously and understandingly affirmed the present perfection of God and of man in His own image.