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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.

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.