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The following report was made available as a handout to people who attended this year 's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.

Here are some examples of the public reaching out for answers to life's questions, and of how three individuals responded by sharing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Examples like these are heartfelt and illustrate Mrs.

Over the years, a number of people have asked me, "Why does your Church publish a newspaper?" One of my answers has always been, Because one role of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to spread truth, and a good newspaper promotes the purposes of truth. One man kept expressing amazement that the paper was so fair, nonsensational, and broad in its coverage.

Mary Baker Eddy affirms, "Christian Science never healed a patient without proving with mathematical certainty that error, when found out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third kills itself. " Miscellaneous Writings , p.

As I sat waiting for a traffic light to change, I noticed a drawn, gaunt little face looking down at me from a billboard. The eyes were deep-set and pleading.

It is comforting to know that God directs man. God, divine Mind, is the source of every true thought, the impeller of every right action, and Mind produces only good.

It's all right to be who you are, because who you are, as God's expression, is wonderful. Sometimes, though, we may feel less than wonderful, and, in fact, baffled about what being ourselves really means.

Have you resigned yourself to living with certain difficulties? Are you tempted to believe that you can be healed in some cases but not others? That some problems are "too big" for anyone to find a complete resolution? If so, you may have fallen into the trap of believing in "partial" dominion. The concept of partial dominion suggests that man is a fragile creature of the flesh, at times victorious but inherently vulnerable because of his supposed corporeal origin and nature.

At the beginning of 1899, Mary Baker Eddy received a letter from a student she had taught eleven years earlier. He wrote that he had served as Reader in his branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and recounted how much time and effort since his class instruction in Christian Science under Mrs.

Some years ago, when I received the news that a shortwave radio network would enable some of the religious periodicals and the daily newspaper of the Christian Science Church to be made widely accessible in broadcast form, my heart soared for the sake of those in countries without Christian Science churches and Reading Rooms. They would be able to learn of the healing influence and effect of these activities that had so strengthened and encouraged me.