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What does prayer mean to us? Is it just a word? How do we define and explain it? Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, states in "No and Yes" ( p.

A woman once called a Christian Science practitioner and said: "I don't know what to do. I can't get out of bed.

We are now within a few years of the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Christian Science. The discovery resulted from the healing of Mrs.

The need of broader and better education is exercising thinkers of many nations. Spectacular scientific advances are whetting the human appetite for greater knowledge of and control over the material universe.

Divine Love, God, is the basis of the healing practice of Christian Science. To bring forth this healing, one needs to reflect the Love that knows no sin, no hate, even the Love that knows nothing but good.

Paul exhorts us in II Corinthians ( 5: 20 ), "Be ye reconciled to God. " Acceptance of this admonition begins to establish for us a closer relationship with God, approaches the atonement, and brings a larger measure of human and divine coincidence.

According to the measure of their spiritual enlightenment, church means different things to different people. But to everyone seeking to follow the teachings of Christ Jesus, the church is mankind's highest concept of the search for God and of a sanctuary from the fears and sorrows of the world.

It is recorded in the Book of Genesis that the first son of the patriarch Abram, later called Abraham, was born to Hagar the bondmaid. This son typifies the concept of a mortal selfhood as comprised in the mistaken beliefs that man is a material entity which inhabits a physical body; that he suffers and enjoys according to what the senses claim he is feeling; and that he can be enslaved by these senses, since sometimes evil seems to be as real and as powerful as God, good.

To those wishing to establish or to improve their sense of home, Christian Science gives every help. It reveals that since the spiritual, real man is the son of God, his home is heaven, unassailable harmony.

In one of his letters to that courageous early Christian worker, Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote ( II Tim. 1:7 ), "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.