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Valuing the concept of man as a divine idea of God.

Physical healing is only the beginning.

I became acquainted with Christian Science when I was dating the man who later became my husband. He had attended a Christian Science Sunday School when he was a child, so when he saw the challenges I was facing, he gave me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

In the past insecurity, internal pressure, and fear accompanied my life. But about three years ago, the fear increased to such a depressing condition that it needed to be solved.

Early last year, I started to have a skin condition, which caused me much itching and irritation. As I had always resorted to prayer in Christian Science and obtained good results, I began to pray by turning my thoughts to God.

To me this passage by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures : “As a man thinketh, so is he” ( p. 166 ), in reference to the Bible verse from Proverbs 23:7 , refers not only to our being, but also relates to every condition and circumstance in life.

Perhaps you live in a part of town that’s a haven of tranquility, where you’re never bothered by noise of any kind. But such is not the case for everyone.

I lead a Bible study group at a local jail in Boston, and the men I talk with use and love a diversity of Bible translations. However, I often hear that many of these men find the words of the King James Version hard to understand or relate to.

Health care in Africa in the early days of the 20th century, at a time when the influence of the missionaries to Africa was not widespread, had a definite dimension to it that was not physical. The doctors or herbalists of those days believed that symptoms of ill health were attributable, in some way, to the patient’s way of life, or their way of thinking—enmity, an unresolved quarrel, lingering hatred, unforgiveness, a sinful nature, or some mysterious incident in the past.

The healings of Jesus have uplifted hope for over 2,000 years. But it wasn’t until Mary Baker Eddy discovered the basis on which Jesus healed as “… the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear …” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.