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Christians are commanded to cast out devils, or evils. Does this include the evil called violence? Christ Jesus cast out this evil when he healed a violently insane man.

During his three-year ministry, Christ Jesus overcame innumerable forms of evil, healing people of all kinds of maladies, freeing them from all kinds of sin, even overcoming death. Jesus' pure, spiritual love for God and man, as well as his understanding of God's omnipotence, enabled him to bless people in ways they had never before thought possible.

Each Lesson-Sermon published in the Christian Science Quarterly—Bible Lessons is designed to be complete in itself. Its Bible references (King James Version) are corroborated and explained by passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Toward the end of last year The Boston Parents' Paper presented a panel discussion on "Nurturing Spirituality in Children" in the Sunday School auditorium of The First Church of Christ, Scientist (The Mother Church), in Boston. On the panel were religious educators from six different faiths, who were invited to tackle such questions as "Where do spiritual values come from?" and, "How do we share them with our children?" Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, offers some observations on the discussion, which was the second in a series being planned for the Boston area.

The demand for spirituality "The time for thinkers has come. "   Science and Health , p.

I think of Abigail as the woman who made a man king.  See I Sam.

Watch your thinking for a day, and you'll discover how much time you're spending with thoughts that are contrary to health and harmony. I determined to do this recently.

While driving through a city several years ago, I was impressed with a question posed on a billboard: "What on earth are you doing for heaven's sake?" This led me to contemplate, what was I doing "for heaven's sake"? The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, gives the metaphysical interpretation of heaven as "harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul. "   Science and Health , p.

" From Puritan parents, the discoverer of Christian Science early received her religious education. " Science and Health , p.

I had been thinking more consciously about resurrection as the Easter season approached. Was resurrection only a one-time event that happened centuries ago to the most spiritually-minded man the world has ever known? If it is more than that, what does resurrection mean to each of us? Does it reach down into the details of human experience and actually influence our daily living? I thought of Christ Jesus' rebuke to Peter and the other disciples he took with him into the garden of Gethsemane the night before his crucifixion: "And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.