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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

God Is Creating Us Now

How old are we? The natural reaction is to think of our birthday. But is this our beginning? Was there a time when God had no children? Was man brought forth at a certain stage of history like a manufactured product with built-in obsolescence? Our true beginning is not a point in time.

Heralds of Universal Good

Every three months a precious package is delivered to my door. As I open it, the bright colored covers of the various editions of The Herald of Christian Science remind me of jewels.

Sharing the Comfort of Truth

Mankind is again in one of those periods of confusion and uncertainty that students of history are familiar with. Tribal and national conflicts, class and race prejudice, self-interest at the expense of others, immorality, and amorality are rampant.

Individual— but Never Apart

As the air about us is one undivided whole, so being is undivided. Division, aloneness, separateness—these represent the trickery of human belief, not the truth of being.

Christian Science Transcends Optimism

Can one be an optimist and a realist at the same time? Can he look at the evils in life and yet judge them to be secondary to the good that life includes? And where do the teachings of Christian Science stand in relation to optimism and realism? Many believe that Christian Science leads one to look on the bright side of things and have greater faith in good than in evil. While this is true, Christian Science is as far from optimism as mere belief is from demonstrable Science.

The Fires of Truth

"Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you. " Science and Health, p.

Our Primary Need In Healing

We sometimes think that our primary needs in life are material—the need for relief from pain, for deliverance from sickness, for food, for a means of transportation, for companionship. But the fact is that unless we look for them in Spirit we may exclude from our lives the very things for which we cry out.

Seeing What Is Really Here

One day in a grocer store a customer looked high and low for something she wished to purchase. Finally, in desperation, she asked the manager's assistance.

Dealing with Mob Violence

For centuries boys and mobs have expressed their feelings by throwing stones. Young boys will spend hours throwing rocks for fun, and a mob out of control will throw anything it can get its hands on.

Love's Hourly Judgment

The judgment of God, "the Judge of all the earth," Gen. 18:25; is often feared as a decree that condemns us rather than blesses us.