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The first issue of The Christian Science Journal in April 1883 carried a notice for "Public Lectures" held in Boston. These lectures were advertised as "free to all.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of names of individuals 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.

Those seeking work and security for themselves and their families often feel greatly frustrated. The media sometimes magnify economic problems, reporting that an enormous host of job seekers and home seekers are competing for a limited number of jobs and homes.

Mary Baker Eddy grew up in the Congregational church. She writes that it was "where my parents first offered me to Christ in infant baptism.

During the seventh and eighth centuries a sizable region in northeastern England called Northumbria reached a high level of culture in art, literature, and religion. The simple rustic customs of early Celtic Christianity were gradually being replaced by a more centralized church order controlled from Rome.

Joy , tenderness, health, boundless good, a complete sense of family—every true and cherished element of life is included in God, divine Mind, and expressed by man. Therefore man, Mind's spiritual idea, its image, is never excluded from good.

Much of what we see going on in the world and in our lives seems to be a process that we have little or no influence over. This perception leads to a sense of futility and hopelessness.

Dedicating ourselves to God is a joyous, expansive, and satisfying way of life. And that dedication demands the spiritual consistency to face down temptations with honesty and dominion—and joy, which is given to us by God.

Joy —we all want it and we all need it, and yet in difficult circumstances we've all felt cut off from it. Joy, however, is central to Christian healing.

Joy is so natural to Christian healing that the disciples of Christ Jesus could "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory," I Pet. 1:8.