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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

Notes toward understanding The Mother Church

Perhaps no one fully understands the structure that is Church. Many of us have gone through two points of discovery.

Power and authority to heal

Suppose you had been one of Christ Jesus' close disciples. You would have learned to heal.

The truth about space

Space, in simple terms and ordinary language, designates the interval between objects or events. We begin cultivating a quite different sense of space when we grasp that omnipresent Spirit necessarily occupies all space.

Consistent textbooks

The Bible may seem puzzling to some people. Even to those who have a deep love for it.

Where the grapes of wrath are not

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was written by Julia Ward Howe when the United States of America was engaged in the Civil War. It begins: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.

The solidness of Truth, the flimsiness of error

After referring to a respected British natural science magazine, an American publication recently summed up the prediction of some physicists investigating the cosmic phenomenon of black holes: ".

The compulsion of resurrection

Why is it that the congregation of most Christian churches is greatly increased at Easter—that many who may not look inside a church the rest of the year are impelled to come? Surely more than tradition and ceremony are involved. May it not be that mankind is in awe of the love that led Jesus to lay down his life for his friends.

What Mrs. Eddy envisioned for us

Mary Baker Eddy discerned profound possibilities for those who fully understand the Science of Christianity she discovered. What she saw was impelled by Mind.

Being specific in treatment

Immediate healing of another or ourselves often comes about through a deep feeling of God's unchangeable goodness and of man's eternal experiencing of goodness. But in the event that we momentarily lack this feeling, and healing does not take place, prayerful Christian Science treatment lifts us to that higher spiritual altitude, which does heal.

Progress and the problem of being

Progress, impelled by divine law! Operating with certainty. Fundamental to man's existence.