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When we follow Christ Jesus in meekness and love, relationship problems are healed and we feel close to God.

Listening to ideas from God enabled this professor to publish a series of books over the course of 15 years, where he patiently prayed to know what to write and how to best help students of his academic institution. 

Christian Scientists don’t treat others metaphysically without their consent, but we can still pray generally to see the truth about God and all of His creation.

When a relative stays at a Christian Science nursing facility, she finds quick healing. 

A Christian Science Sunday School teacher once pointed out to our class of young teens that Jesus never instructed his followers, “Worship me. ” Rather, he counseled them, “Follow me” and “Heal the sick” ( Matthew 4:19; 10:8 ).

Laura Sargent was a student in the 1884 class that Mary Baker Eddy taught in Chicago. Sargent went on to become one of Eddy’s most trusted staff members.

A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.

My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

To learn what brings about healings and to understand divine Science, it’s important to go to the books—the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings. We shouldn’t look to other people’s testimonies for guides or formulas for how we should pray.  

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, uses an interesting term— alterative —to describe divine Truth, with its healing effect on human minds and bodies. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes, “Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it ‘every whit whole’ ” ( p.