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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS PLEASED to report that the program to allow licensing of the Cross and Crown seal is underway. Christian Science branch churches and societies, Christian Science Reading Rooms, and Christian Science organizations at colleges and universities may now make requests to use the Cross and Crown.

1. Do you need a great physician? One who's always available, knows you inside and out, constantly cares for you, and can heal you in the most perfect way? Journal contributing editor Channing Walker tells how knowing God as the "great Physician" is key to maintaining good health.

2007-2008 LECTURERS John Q. Adams, C.

MARY BAKER EDDY EXPECTED members of her Board of Lectureship to present "The Christ mode of understanding Life—of exterminating sin and suffering and their penalty, death .

ON JUNE 1, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS met to elect candidates to membership with The Mother Church. The members of the Board are truly grateful for each and every individual who unites with the Church that Mary Baker Eddy organized ".

MARK SWINNEY, C. S.

I began to understand my grandmother's expression, because yes, this really seemed like a Charles Dickens kind of a place. After I finished art school, I had a job in an old photo engraving shop in Boston as a plate etcher—dirty and dangerous work.

ALL LAST SUMMER I had been so looking forward to spending my Labor Day weekend (September 2-3) at my old summer camp in Missouri, the site of the first Spiritual Activism Summit hosted by TMC Youth. However, on the morning I was to get on the plane to fly out there, I woke up and looked in the bathroom mirror.

A BALMY EVENING in the spring of my freshman year. Through the window of the college dorm I could see what must have been half the student population gathering in the dusk, in small groups, along the pathways of our quaint lowa campus.

Since the time of Jesus, Christians have turned to prayer for healing—not only of physical ailments, but of every kind of trouble. For several hundred years after Jesus' resurrection and ascension, his followers healed as he had—by relying on God alone to sustain the life, the health, and the well-being of all.