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In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy devotes an entire chapter — "Christian Science Practice" — primarily to explaining the correct approach to healing through this Science. How does she begin the chapter? Interestingly enough, not with a heavy dose of metaphysical reasoning.

During the thirty -ninth annual congress of Vision New England in Boston in February, there was much talk among the eleven thousand participants about "healthy churches" and "growing churches" and even "perfect churches. " But our News Editor, Kim Shippey, reports that one of the speakers focused instead on the responsibilities of church members.

DO you remember when you first learned to ride a bicycle by yourself? You'd been doing well on training wheels, but maybe you were a little scared at the thought of taking them off. When they were gone, maybe your dad or mom ran alongside while you tried to stay on, or maybe you stayed close to a railing so you could grab on if you started to teeter.

If you had told me as recently as five years ago that I would be a full-time Christian Science practitioner within a few short years, I would have told you, "No way. " I had plans for my life—big plans.

The "Y2K" computer challenge is unprecedented in technological history in terms of its scope and complexity. However, we all have powerful authority for demonstrating the ability to solve any problem through reliance on God.

You've probably never wondered how apples behaved before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. It's pretty obvious they wouldn't have occasionally fallen upward just because no one had yet explained the law governing their motion.

Healing is a quiet thing, experienced within the sanctuary of our own thought. Healing is not a miraculous exhibition, but a sign of Immanuel, or "God with us.

When I first started to explore the teachings of Christian Science, there were two small lumps in one of my breasts. Yet this had nothing to do with what prompted me to purchase Science and Health and pore over its contents with absorbed interest.

These words in Isaiah are stirring: "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. " Isa.

When in 1867 Mary Baker Eddy first began to take pupils in order to teach them the Science of Christ, she taught from the Bible and she also turned these students to the Scriptures. Today, the Christian Science Quarterly Weekly Bible Lessons, whose topics she chose, fulfill a major role in helping anyone who studies them stay close to the Bible and explore its healing spiritual meaning.