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Do you have questions you'd like to explore with other readers? This feature provides a forum where people around the world exchange questions and answers about church activities. Questions cover subjects such as the public practice of Christian Science healing and nursing, church membership, churches and Sunday Schools ministering to their communities, and spiritual exploration and outreach at colleges and universities.

A member of The Mother Church who represents himself or herself as a Christian Science nurse shall be one who has a demonstrable knowledge of Christian Science practice, who thoroughly understands the practical wisdom necessary in a sick room, and who can take proper care of the sick . The cards of such persons may be inserted in The Christian Science Journal under rules established by the publishers.

The local members of The Mother Church have been working together to see each Sunday service and Wednesday testimony meeting as an active healing service. Jesus' sermons healed, and so did Mrs.

After being appointed superintendent of our Sunday School several years ago, I often would receive, sometimes weekly, telephone calls of discouragement from the teacher of the class of kindergartners. She diligently prepared for her class and had been a favorite substitute for all classes before she accepted her assignment as a teacher for this class.

Thoughtful people over the centuries have searched for satisfying insight into such questions as "Where does evil come from? Why does God permit it?" Mary Baker Eddy struggled with these questions. And her constant turning to God led her to shift the inquiry.

Most missions—explorations, military actions, rescues, mercy expeditions, and such—require an extensive support system. The primary mission of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is healing, of both sickness and sin.

I had been practicing Christian Science for several years when a friend asked me about taking Primary class instruction in Christian Science. I had given it some thought, but argued that it just wasn't time for such a huge undertaking.

Christian Science treatment heals. It is prayer that acknowledges and authoritatively affirms man's spiritual nature as God's, Spirit's, expression.

One way to measure a book's worth is to see how well the author gives the reader a compelling sense of place. In two books I read recently, the geographies were vividly pictured.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of individuals engaged in the public healing ministry of Christian Science. While any sincere student of this Science may practice spiritual healing, individuals advertising in The Christian Science Journal are those who have an established record of healing and have met the standards required for advertising.