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This past September a "Health and Nutrition" exhibition was held in Bombay, India. The members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bombay, had a booth at the exhibition, featuring Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Some months ago I was feeling joyful over a physical healing that had taken place. The condition had changed for the better, and the apparent danger had passed; now everything was well again.

Many years ago I had a very simple and interesting experience. It showed me the practicality of appreciating two qualities of God's nature as Soul: beauty and purity.

A central teaching in Christ Jesus' ministry is the importance of love, expressed in devotion to God and in charity to one's fellowman. The virtues of forgiveness, patience, and selfless love are extolled in the Gospels.

Daily we see suffering in the world, and mankind yearning to be relieved of this suffering. One day as I was praying for mankind, these words came to me: "There is no thorn.

There have been times when I have found it difficult to focus on reading a very familiar account from the Bible. There have been occasions when I have caught myself daydreaming in church instead of being uplifted by hearing well-known passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.

During the second and third centuries of the early Church, Latin Christianity began to gain large numbers of followers. Its growth soon reduced the dominant influence of the Greek church.

Those seeking healing through Christian Science are striving to understand more fully that all being is spiritual. For this reason they don't analyze problems or illnesses from a material basis.

Do we pray just to satisfy ourselves and to say that we prayed, or do we pray to demonstrate the power of God, to know and express His will? That's an important question. Prayer that humbly seeks God, that yields to what He is and what He does, is prayer that transforms us and heals.

If someone you deeply admired told you to step out of a boat into a huge lake during a driving storm without any apparent life support, would you obey without a protest? Is there anyone you know who would make such a commitment? A man once did make this commitment, and his story is told in the Bible, in the book of Matthew.  See Matt.