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The following experience of a church organist shows the great importance of the By-Law "Prayer in Church" from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, which reads : " The prayers in Christian Science churches shall be offered for the congregations collectively and exclusively.

I was fifteen. It was a beautiful spring day in the small town where I lived in the midwestern United States.

Imagine if some person in your community were to attend a Christian Science branch church with this question in thought: "I wonder if these people are followers of Christ Jesus?" What would be the one sure way a newcomer to Christian Science could tell they were disciples of Jesus? It wouldn't be from tattoos on their arms stating "Property of Christ," which they wouldn't have. It wouldn't be from watching them walk barefoot over hot coals to prove their devotion, which Christian Scientists don't do.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.

I locked the door of my real estate office and prayed. For more than four years my wife and I had struggled with a limited income.

Almost daily, new lanes are being opened on the information superhighway. In what has been termed an information explosion, more and more sources are telling us things affecting our lives.

from the reminiscences of Walter W. Watson July 17, 1932 The centennial year of The Christian Science Publishing Society is a landmark in Mary Baker Eddy's work as Founder.

Many people today see their difficulties as rising from a lack of opportunity Perhaps they feel they've missed that one big opportunity or that it hasn't yet come. And there's always the cliché "Opportunity knocks only once.

Most of us at some time have had thoughts such as, "I'll have difficulty making conversation with those people; they're so much more intelligent than I am. " Or, "I can't be expected to compete; I have nowhere near the same experience.

In Science and Health , Mary Baker Eddy asks, "What is God?" And she answers, "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. " She goes on to say that these are synonymous terms, and adds: "They refer to one absolute God.