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" Whom the lord loveth he chasteneth. " Heb.

Early in her discovery of the Science of Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy asked the son of some Quaker friends if she might heal him. He had a painful bone felon on his finger.

While reading The Christian Science Journal (August 1999), I was deeply moved by a statement from a student who had attended the conference "Pioneers of the Spiritual Millennium" in Boston, Massachusetts. This young adult made a commitment to a new way of thinking: "I decided at this conference that I am going to try to make the transition from patient to a healer.

In Christian Science Primary class instruction, I was introduced to God through His attributes, the qualities that express His nature. I found them a mighty aid to understanding my true nature as God's image.

What if our most earnest efforts to find healing through prayer seem to get nowhere, or our healings tend to take a long time? In my experience of applying the teachings of Christian Science, I've found that one of the reasons may be that the spiritual reality of perfect God and of our own perfection as His child—which underlies healing—still doesn't seem very real to us. But this can change.

There's no question that Christ Jesus held up a very high moral standard for humanity. It includes undeviating obedience to the Ten Commandments—not only in conduct but in thought.

Lost in the wilderness —that was how I felt. Maybe you've felt this way, too.

Considering the headlines in recent times, it's not surprising that people are yearning for those in government, business—and, in fact, all walks of life—to follow higher ethical standards. Is doing so just a matter of human striving to be and do better, to stick more firmly to the right and be more alert and prompt in spurning the wrong? Of course, such striving is valuable, but without a perception of the divine reality underlying our efforts, we may find ourselves wanting to do right but not always achieving it.

Every felt that you were worthless? Or, maybe even worse, that everyone else thinks you're worthless? Probably most of us would answer yes. Sometimes young people are especially susceptible to such feelings.

Those of us who attended Sunday School when we were children often assume that it has always existed. Of course there has been religious education of the young for many centuries—as is evident from Jesus' visiting with the doctors of the law in the Temple When he was twelve years old.