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I have much appreciated reading reminiscences of those who lived in Mary Baker Eddy’s household, and learning of how she encouraged her students to become stronger metaphysical workers. In particular, reading Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, and We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volumes 1 and 2, has greatly helped me get to know her life story better and gain a better understanding of her primary work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

As a child, our family holidays were always spent at the seaside, usually in the north of Scotland. I always wanted to be able to swim but for various reasons never learned.

After learning even just a little about what Christian Science teaches of God’s, divine Spirit’s, reality and all-presence, one’s thoughts might naturally overflow with profound happiness. What heartening, wonderful news: Spirit and its manifestation, which is wholly good, actually makes up the entirety of existence! As one then continues to investigate Spirit’s utter all-presence and nature and, more importantly, begins to integrate this spiritual understanding into daily life through experiences of healing, one can’t help but feel prompted to deeply examine the corollary that Spirit’s opposite, matter, must be an illusion.

Christ Jesus gave his followers a command to heal the sick (see Matthew 10:8 ), and he was always communicating God’s will. And a loving God would never ask of us something we were not properly prepared to accomplish.

Illness is well known to produce fear among humanity—so much so that people rarely question this relationship. Less well known but far more important to understand is the reverse—that fear breeds illness.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the following article the author shares his experience of a clarity of spiritual vision that, in turn, led him into a deeper study and practice of Christian Science, and to years of service in the Christian Science movement. In his popular book Proof of Heaven, Dr.

Healing is not a miracle—it’s really the natural evidence of God, our divine Father, caring for all of us, His children.

The mission of each one of the Christian Science periodicals is clearly defined above by Mary Baker Eddy, but the many reasons why she felt a need to publish Christian Science periodicals are worthy of consideration. So, each month, in this column the  Journal, Sentinel,  and  Herald  will be exploring important reasons why these publications are needed today.

It was natural for Christ Jesus to reach out to others in his daily walk. In so many examples in the Bible, we see his love for God and for humanity, and his willingness to express this love even in a challenging environment where religious laws were rigidly enforced.

Some years back I lived on the 25th floor of a high-rise apartment building, where my grandsons loved to visit me. One of their favorite things was riding up in the elevator, and it never escaped their notice that after the elevator reached the 12th floor, it then skipped in numbering to the 14th.