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"I know that my mission is for all the earth, not alone for my dear devoted followers in Christian Science.

With my junior year in high school finally coming to an end, the question "What are you going to do with your life?" struck me, along with a feeling of fear and uncertainty. Yet I was so grateful for the wounderful lessons I had learned in Christian Science, and for the fact that I could "cast [my] burden upon the Lord"   Ps.

Sitting in my car outside the pharmacy, I wept as I clutched a small bottle filled with Ritalin, a prescription drug for hyperactive children. When our daughter was fourteen months old, we had been referred to a pediatric neurologist, who told us she was "developmentally delayed.

Participation in the singing of hymns is an opportunity for members of church congregations to lift their hearts, minds, and voices in unified expressions of pure joy, prayer, and praise to the God of the Christian gospel—divine Love. And since many hymnbooks include well-loved songs of the spirit that are found in a variety of denominations, their use in services may also provide a bond of fellowship felt by visitors from other Christian churches.

" My generation wonders if this whole human endeavor shouldn't mean more than owning the biggest car on the block. "  David Arnold, "Their Turn," The Boston Globe Magazine, January 2, 2000, p.

June 6, 2000 Dear Fellow Member, Greetings, gratitude, and love to you from The Christian Science Board of Directors and from all who gathered here at The Mother Church for our Annual Meeting. We are writing to you, and to all members worldwide, to share some important information that was given during yesterday's meeting.

To give truly effective spiritual treatment through prayer, treatment that heals, is the concern of many people. How might we do it, and do it better? The most potent treatment doesn't start out assuming that a particular worrying condition is solid reality to be somehow pushed aside, despite a perhaps persistent appearance.

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Millions Of People have lost faith in what they used to believe in. This has brought a great moral crisis in our society.

When I was ten years old my Sunday School teacher taught our class how we could pray if we hurt ourselves—if we scraped our knees roller-skating, for instance. She taught us to immediately deny that accidents can occur in God's kingdom; next, to replace the claim of accident with the truth that only harmony is real; and, finally, to rely wholeheartedly on God's power to enforce that truth.