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Shortly after Mary Baker Eddy’s passing in 1910 , a member of her household found a signed, handwritten note pasted in the back of a personal copy of her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the textbook of Christian Science. “Whenever there seems to be a need or lack in your experience,” it read in part, “this simply indicates the scientific fact that this seeming need is already supplied by God’s gracious abundance” (Reminiscences of Adelaide Still, p.

Flying down the slopes on a bright winter day, crisscrossing a majestic mountain—downhill skiing is truly exhilarating! Great skiing involves balance, stamina, courage, and technique. One key component is keeping the proper flex in your knees.

Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, seven years before Mary Baker Eddy began her own quest to probe the scientific basis of her healing. Darwin’s ideas disquieted many Christians, who felt deeply disturbed at the implications of his book.

Right from my first contact with Christian Science I felt something groundbreaking happening to me. Mary Baker Eddy’s ideas touched my heart.

When I was a senior in my high school, I declared to my parents, “I am going to America to meet people of my age to see what they are thinking!”  While many of my peers were concerned about entrance exams to universities and colleges, I doubted if going to a university in Japan was my true desire. I had excellent teachers up to that point, but I was searching for deeper meaning in life.

There’s lots of talk in the media these days about the concept of sustainability. The term has been broadly defined as “the capacity to endure.

As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, until God becomes the All and Only of our being.

The Church Manual   provides for the Christian Science Board of Directors to ask a lecturer to go to “such places and at such times as the cause of Christian Science demands” ( Article XXXII, Section 1 ). This was the case, early in 2010, when I was asked to lecture in Central America.

A FEW YEARS AGO, a visitor to our branch church commented that when he had attended a service, no one had spoken to him. We had heard this from visitors before.

A few years ago , as musicians at our Christian Science branch church, my wife and I invited a friend of ours with a beautiful, trained voice to do the solo one Sunday. She asked if she could sing a solo that her husband had composed, and if he could play the accompaniment himself.