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Last September, one hundred and thirty-one Christian Scientists who serve as Christian Science Committees on Publication in thirty-two countries attended a conference of Committees on Publication in London, England. Here are excerpts from a presentation given at the conference by M.

For every member of The Mother Church— The First Church of Christ, Scientist—no matter what his or her present duties, membership is a sacred role much more than a human responsibility. It is a dynamic commission, not a symbolic post, to which each member is called by God and which each member fulfills most deeply within his or her own consciousness.

One of the most vivid parables Christ Jesus gave us is the story of the "ten virgins," found in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. It centers on a wedding, a time of great joy and festivity in a Palestinian village.

One bright and beautiful Monday morning as I started to make breakfast, this dialogue took place between what I'll call "me" and the "still small voice" of spiritual intuition: Me: "Hey, my throat is painful. Chest feels tight.

The noted American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. " The New York Public Library Book Twentieth-Century American Quotations (New York: Warner Books, 1992), p.

Human thought assumes that everything, be it bad or good, has a cause. It does so as instinctively as the bee seeks nectar or migratory birds fly to a warmer hemisphere in the winter.

Wednesday evening meetings at a Church of Christ, Scientist, are always special occasions. There was one Wednesday night, however, when the meeting was so helpful to me that an idea from the readings has stayed with me for years.

One morning after reading the Bible Lesson, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, I felt truly inspired. I rejoiced in the love I was feeling from God and in the knowledge of His spiritual creation as it unfolded to me from the pages of the Bible and of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

When my son was a toddler, and I found that it was occasionally necessary to correct him for misbehavior, he would come and stand right in front of me, cover his eyes with his hands, and wait for the session to be over! He would then come closer for a hug and be off playing again. How often I have thought of this when I've made a mistake.

The world's great need of healing reflects a mental need. Strife, calamities, and seemingly insoluble problems express the fermenting of human thought as it's forced to yield to the unseen leavening action of the Christ, the divine idea of God.