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Our younger daughter took class instruction in Christian Science while she was still in college. Her first association meeting was to be held in September of the next year.

The picture on the book jacket was vivid—arms upstretched to their fullest, hands open to receive the Holy Ghost. This Pentecostal scene may well describe the mental posture of people at their annual Christian Science Students Association meetings.

The tension between the kind of Christian education white slave owners wanted their slaves to have—compared to true Christian education—runs throughout the history of slavery, especially in the United States. There were free African Americans in North America in the years immediately following the battle for independence from Great Britain.

We're pleased to be able to share the following talk, given by Virginia S. Harris on behalf of The Christian Science Board of Directors at the 25-year celebration of Thanks-Giving Square last November in Dallas.

We often think of gratitude as something we feel after something good happens. Yet, if we start with gratitude to God, this has a profound effect on our thinking and experience.

The Bible tells about a man who asks Jesus which is the most important commandment in the law. Jesus replies, "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

It's not unusual for those who have never experienced spiritual healing to question its validity, to wonder if turning to God alone for healing is a safe and sane thing to do. Is prayer a reasonable and effective way of curing illness, injury, or pain? I feel certain it is.

A number of years ago, while I was sitting on the beach, a young man came and kneeled in front of me. I noticed a big, beautiful cross hanging on a chain around his neck.

Some people who have lost loved ones have been deeply comforted—and even healed of grief—through realizing that every precious quality they cherished in their loved ones, they also, as children of God, fully and beautifully express. After all, each of God's sons and daughters reflects the wholeness of His nature, right here and now.

"I was brought back to life by a book .