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Christ Jesus made a statement, recorded in the book of John, that I find to be one of the most thought-provoking verses in the Bible: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Everyone always told me, "College years are the best of your life!" I got my degree last year, and as I look back, I agree—at least, they have certainly been the best four years of my life so far! I don't mean they were one long party. On the contrary, it was a time when I was forced to overcome one challenge after another.

Purity is an essential element in the practice of Christianity. To be pure-minded, to live a life of goodness and spiritual clarity, is inseparable from spiritual growth and attainment.

Christian Healing , illustrated in the ministry of Christ Jesus and practiced in Christian Science, might be described as participation in perfection—spiritual perfection. When people came to Jesus for healing, it was not unusual for him to require something of them.

Where Adversity appears so very real, God's love is actually the only ruling presence. Why? Because God fills all space, and He is the only God— eternal, omnipotent, divine Love.

In 1906, my husband was asked to undertake some work in Russia. We both felt it was a call to take Christian Science to that country.

Lillie Wallich could not have introduced Christian Science to Russia at a more portentous time than in 1907. Straight from the gentility of Edwardian England, the Christian Science practitioner landed in the roil of social and political upheaval that would ultimately topple the Romanov dynasty and launch the communist era.

The Increasing Interest today in things spiritual is becoming evident in perhaps unexpected places. Doctors are investigating and affirming the effect of prayer on bodily health; theologians in greater numbers are beginning to accept that prayer can actually bring physical healing; and physicists and other natural scientists are increasingly positing the existence of a directing spiritual force in the universe.

Sometimes  it seems that civility and respect are helpless victims of materialism and crime. Especially disturbing are reports of vandalism in schools, the desecration of houses of worship, the defamation of values and institutions.

Life On This Planet requires water. Weather, an atmospheric phenomenon, is what lifts it from oceans and distributes it over the earth's surface.