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Just over a century ago, following the dedication of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mary Baker Eddy published a note in which she brings out several important points concerning this Church, its impact on the world, its relation to other churches, and on the relation of Christian Scientists to one another. On this last point she writes: "Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,—that loves only because it is Love.

As more and more people become aware of the connection between spirituality and health, they are reaching out for answers. Individuals and branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are responding by sharing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

If we're faced with a difficult physical condition, we don't need to succumb to depression or fear. Nor need we ask in despair, " Why me? " Help is available when we turn wholly to God, Spirit.

Several years ago while I was a member of a large, active branch Church of Christ, Scientist, our family moved to a community where there was a very small branch church. Leaving close friends and a church we loved very much wasn't easy.

When I was about twelve years of age, I was concerned about life with its problems of suffering, sickness, and eventual death. I felt frustrated and sad.

People generally believe the brain to be mind, the intelligent directional center of man. A nationally syndicated magazine article on this subject begins: "My brain is me.

Sometimes we live life at such a fast speed that there appears to be no time to stop and contemplate what is going on. We become like outsiders watching life go past, as in a fast-paced movie.

To me the greatest gift I was ever given was Christian Science. I was introduced to it when I was about thirteen, and never have I been so greatly benefited and blessed.

That great prophet Elijah, in the nineteenth chapter of First Kings in the Bible, is found in the most unlikely condition. He is sitting under a juniper tree apparently acquiescing to the suggestion that he should just give up.

Mortal existence seems to be a complex mixture of good and evil, joy and sorrow, health and sickness, harmony and disturbance. And so we endeavor to enhance the good in our lives and to find ways to deal with the bad.