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For the past several years our Christian Science Society has been giving specific attention to understanding and fulfilling more diligently our responsibility of following the directives of the Manual of The Mother Church . The board members took up its study in earnest.

The terms evangelist, evangelism , and evangelistic have been associated in the public mind not only with a zealous preaching of the gospel, but sometimes with demagoguery and not-so-honest media preaching. But this isn't what evangelism really amounts to.

One morning , I opened a magazine and, much to my surprise, the print seemed to have shrunk overnight! I knew that I needed to pray. As I listened for inspiration, I remembered that I had once heard a television report which basically stated that an eventual diminishing of eyesight is to be expected.

14:32-42 After their Passover meal, Jesus and his disciples came to a place which was named Gethsemane . The hour was very late, and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.

For several seconds before the conductor picked up the baton and raised his arms, the members of the orchestra and the entire audience were silent. Then, in the maestro's own time, and in accord with his own comprehension of the music, he began conducting, drawing one section of the orchestra after another into the intricate rhythm and order of the piece.

When Christ Jesus met a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, they had an interesting conversation. Jesus spoke of God as Spirit.

When we seek physical healing in Christian Science, we look to God. We pray to be governed by Him, by divine Mind.

When I was fifteen , I began learning English at a local club. A few years later, one of the teachers invited our group to watch a movie in English about Jesus Christ.

Though citizens of the former Soviet Union had long been guaranteed religious freedom under their Constitution, the reality was arrest or an abbreviated career for any who chose to ignore the unwritten rule that the only good Soviet was an atheistic Soviet. With the death of Leonid Brezhnev, however, a new atmosphere of thought began to permeate Russian society, and by the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika or "restructuring" was already breaking ground in the areas of politics, society, and religion.

Many people have a nostalgic feeling about American television of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. They point to an innocence often missing in the nineties.