Articles

Mary Baker Eddy Wrote, "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. "   Science and Health, p.

I FELT STUCK ON TWO FRONTS. I wanted to leave my job and start a new career, but the timing didn't seem right.

OUR FIRST CONTACT challenged me to remain calm and cheerful. I had requested some information but was subjected to a barrage of profanity and turned away empty-handed.

IT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN EVERYTHING just seemed to be wrong. I was living far from family and most of my friends in a part of the country that I didn't especially care for.

WE HAD ALL BEEN ANTICIPATING THE FAMILY reunion for weeks. Especially since it had been two years since our last one.

THERE I WAS ON MY HANDS AND KNEES sprawled across a downtown sidewalk. I had just been assaulted by a gang of troublemakers.

"CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?" From family members at a holiday gathering suddenly turned fractious, to negotiators at a nuclear disarmament summit lobbying for cooler heads, the plea echoes and reechoes. But it doesn't have to go unanswered.

THE GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA in Florence, Italy, houses four marble sculptures by Michelangelo. Known as the "Four Prisoners," the human figures are only partially chiseled.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MOTHER CHURCH 2005 offered a glimpse of some to the thought behind the activities at The Mother Church. One of the highlights was a "town-hall-style" meeting with the Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Richard Bergenheim, and other members of the Monitor's staff.

The following is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the September 10, 1910, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. Church Founder Mary Baker Eddy called this article "practical and scientific" and recommended a careful study of it to all students of Christian Science.