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Prayer that uplifts and heals is not an invention of the human mind. It is the God-inspired means for experiencing His help and care in our lives.

The vibrant colors of the morning sunrise enhanced the incredible peace evident in the African Bush. On that beautiful, crystal-clear morning, I could tangibly feel the presence of God—His majesty, grandeur, strength, and loving embrace.

The human body isn't a criminal or wrongdoer. It isn't guilty of the "crime" of disease or other physical discords.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of practitioners engaged in the public healing ministry of Christian Science. We thought it might be helpful to Journal readers, and especially to those who are considering fuller engagement in Christian Science healing, to hear some of these practitioners share a few thoughts about how they got started in the full-time practice.

It was an early December day in 1968. There was no snow.

The Christmas season. Whatever your view of it—whether you anticipate it with great delight, or perhaps with some sense of dread, or with a combination of these (as many people do)—you may be searching for a way to make this season's activity more truly satisfying for yourself and others.

In the United States, several symposiums on the relationship of prayer and healing have heightened people's curiosity about Christian Science. Senior officials of the Church of Christ, Scientist, have given many talks on the subject, and Christian Science practitioners and lecturers have received numerous invitations from colleges and universities to explain the Church's mission to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.

What a delight! The testimony I'd read in the Christian Science Sentinel had been written by a boy I knew. In fact, I'd been his very first Sunday School teacher.

When a contribution is made to the Restoration and Renewal Fund, what is the actual gift? Is it the cash or securities, or the real estate? Or do these merely represent the gift? Isn't the real gift the thought and motive that impel the act of giving? Contributors often communicate with us about the motives behind their gifts and donations. These include a renewed love for the universal mission of the Church of Christ, Scientist, a deep gratitude for personal blessings received (the foremost being spiritual healing), and a joyful sense of duty to help provide capital improvements to the facilities at The Mother Church.

• Immediately after a lecture on Science and Health, a woman comes up to the lecturer, takes Science and Health out of her hand, and gives her $20, saying, "I need this book. " • After hearing a lecture, a man living on disability payments who had been praying to know how to be healed, buys Science and Health.