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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.

At the back of this magazine, a directory lists names 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 are engaged in no other vocation, have an established record of healing, and have met the standards required for listing.

" Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. " Matt.

Christians throughout the centuries have been asking, How did Christ Jesus heal? The Master himself pointed to the answer in these words: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. " John 6:63.

Through the centuries many people have prayed fervently and expectantly, have prayed to God with humble trust in His power to guide and protect them and to lift them out of difficulties. For example, the Psalmist prayed, "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.