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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

Let the Word of Good run free!

LAURENCE CHADERTON WAS A REBEL for every one of his 38 years as president of the Puritan Emmanuel College at Cambridge University. He harangued against Church rituals.

Present perfection

Imagine yourself on the flank of a mountain, at a high altitude. It's nighttime and so dark that you can hardly see where you are.

Diamonds of all colors

Have you ever seen a light blue diamond? Or a pink, yellow, or green one? Magnificently beautiful, yet very different from each other, diamonds all shine with such intensity that you would never think of one of them as some other gem. They never resist the light.

A way to help with AIDS in Africa

Our understanding of what controls life makes a difference to the world. The NUMBER ONE PROBLEM in the world today.

New-birth moments

It's a mental snapshot I've carried with me since I was a preschooler. We were visiting my aunt and uncle in New England.

Overcoming barriers—looking forward

What kept the national government from using its arsenal of weapons? Prayers. IN THE EARLY DAYS of October this year, Germany will celebrate a noteworthy anniversary: ten years of national unity.

A book as physician

In the one hundred and twenty-five years since Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was published, thousands of people have come to think of the book not only as a guide to the understanding of God, but as a physician as well. Mary Baker Eddy predicted this phenomenon in the book itself, where she writes: "If the reader of this book observes a great stir throughout his whole system, and certain moral and physical symptoms seem aggravated, these indications are favorable.

No impasse in God's presence

The true history of each one of us is a spiritual reality that God knows. The Traffic Was Heavy on the one-way street in Granada, Spain, as we were driving to a historic district on the other side of the town.

On the freedom trail

The freedom trail is more than a physical trail. The writer outlines the different things going on in the US during the time of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery (universal freedom), and shares Mrs. Eddy's talk at Tremont Temple as a way to explain this freedom trail we are all still on.

Can a career fulfill a holy purpose?

• A young man graduated from college a month ago. Now, hardly a week goes by without someone asking him what he plans to do with the rest of his life.