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

Beyond Death—What and Where?

John Dryden wrote in the seventeenth century: Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. Aurengzebe,Act IV,Scene 1; Although human beings seem to die, somewhere in each of us is the hope of immortality.

The Outreach of Spiritual Thinking

"The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases," Rudimental Divine Science, p. 9 writes Mrs.

Include the Community

Often during a discussion of church work we hear someone remark, "We should be filling our church better" or "We need more pupils in the Sunday School. " It is certainly true that all the marvelous facilities of the Christian Science movement should be fully utilized.

Long Life—Threat or Promise?

In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visits the people of Luggnagg. There he is amazed to learn of the existence of a rare breed of people destined to live forever.

Is Heaven at the End of the Yellow Brick Road?

In The Wizard of Oz, as you may remember, a little girl named Dorothy is carried away (or dreams she is) from her Kansas home to the land of the Munchkins. She is told by the lovable little people of the place that if she wishes to return home, she must follow a yellow brick road all the way to the wise Wizard of Oz.

Answering the Unwise Question

Sometimes, when beset by personal problems that seem obdurate, even the most careful thinker feels tempted to puzzle over the question, Why am I not coping with difficulties as quickly as I used to? Ecclesiastes, the Preacher who valued wisdom, calls this an unwise question: "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?" he admonishes his readers. Then he adds, "For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

The Perfect Model: Spiritual Man

How frequently one hears people complain, "If I could only get rid of this condition!" Unfortunately, when we are convinced we have something worrisome, something discordant or unhealthy, to get rid of, we are accepting material sense testimony that we are mortals struggling to overcome something real, present, and powerful. This conviction makes the error much more difficult to eradicate.

Where the Action Is

People like to see things happen. A day without events seems stagnant.

How Do We Value Money and Things?

A young woman said, "I gave up my ten-thousand-a-year job and my apartment and sold off all the furnishings. I thought that in giving up all I had I would be helping others.

Getting Materiality Out of Human Consciousness

Living can be an adventure, fulfilling and rewarding, when we use the spiritual qualities we reflect from God to destroy the illusions of mortal, material thought. Christian Science explains that human experience objectifies the condition of human consciousness.