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Most of us take the content of the Bible for granted. But there was a time when there wasn't a Bible as we know it.

Recently I was visiting some Web sites where Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is considered one of today's sacred texts. Mrs.

In 1990, when I started to read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I was quite skeptical and more than a little cynical about the book and its impact on people's lives. A Jewish woman from New York had given me a copy of the book and told me that it had changed her life.

I live close to the river Thames near London, and I love to take walks along the tow-path. It's always quiet and peaceful there, and I find it a good place to be tranquil and to think.

I felt beaten. Two years of preparing to make Christian Science healing my full-time profession, and it looked as though everything was falling apart.

From the depths of despair to the Christian Science practice Patricia Tupper Hyatt First off, let me say that the thought of practicing Christian Science for the public was the very last thing I would have imagined myself doing. I would have said "Never in a million years!" Not only was it not in line with how I saw myself, it didn't fit my capabilities.

I didn't have a job lined up when I moved to Chicago, but I'd just graduated from college and was ready to get started. I had some debt piled up through student loans and was eager to begin knocking that down.

How do children pray? What are their prayers like? In an effort to answer these questions, the Journal's Jenny Sawyer talked with four elementary school children. The results, in pictures and words, convey the kids' individual responses to the word "prayer.

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One of the great things about prayer is that it's timeless. From ancient times, people have prayed about their personal needs and also about events around them.