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The Book of Acts records that after the stoning of Stephen, who was one of the early Christians, a great persecution arose against the young Christian church in Jerusalem, and most believers scattered throughout the region, fleeing for their lives (see Acts 8:1 ). Regardless of this crisis, Acts continues with accounts of these followers of Christ Jesus sharing their new faith, making new disciples, and sowing the seeds of new churches wherever they went.

As children of God, we each express the divine character. Divine means from or like God.

The  Journal  is pleased to offer readers the third in an occasional column from the Office of Christian Science Practitioner Activities at The Mother Church in Boston. “Pathways to the practice” is autobiographical.

The many ways in which Christian Science practitioners and teachers found their way into the public practice of Christian Science.

We’re not benefited by trying to use human will to relinquish materiality. Rather, as we realize more clearly the allness of Spirit, God, good, false desires and influences that God never caused will naturally fall away, like barnacles on a ship that sails into fresh waters. 

The lifeless influence that would hide or even seem to bury churches is actually in consciousness. It therefore needs to be exposed and addressed in thought. It cannot be ignored. 

My husband and I were nearing our retirement years, and I knew we needed a change so that we could retire. We both worked heavy-labor, low-paying self-employed jobs that offered no benefits, and we also had no savings.

A couple of years back, while on a cycling trip, I was dwelling on a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit” ( p. 468 ).

The discord most impressing an individual will disappear from his or her thought as he or she perceives anyone as being perfect, as God is. 

When we challenge pain’s validity, seeing it as a mirage, we truly make progress and find relief.