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Hugs communicate. "You're loved," they say, and we feel loved.

Recently I reread an account of a woman who was healed by Mary Baker Eddy through prayer. See Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

The presence of the fledgling Office of Alter native Medicine (OAM) in the National Institutes of Health is indicative that many thoughtful people in the United States are now considering the effectiveness of a range of treatments outside the medical mainstream. Some therapies being tested are even in direct opposition to conventional medicine.

The use of statistics to measure the thinking and reactions of the population is big business today. Polls that gather such statistical information can be useful, especially to businesses and political candidates.

Sometimes it's helpful, when considering an unfamiliar subject like spiritual healing, to begin with a frame of reference that is familiar. So, if we describe the practice of conventional medicine as applying the knowledge of physiology, epidemiology, chemistry, and so forth to the cure of bodily illness, then we might describe Christian Science healing as applying the knowledge of God, the divine Principle of all existence, to correct the errors of the human mind that result in illness and thereby to heal the illness.

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This feature provides a forum where people around the world ask questions vital to the activities of Church, and others respond with fresh, healing approaches. Questions pertain to subjects such as the public practice of Christian Science healing and nursing; church membership; churches and Sunday Schools ministering to their communities; spiritual exploration and outreach at colleges and universities.

" I'm already on page 63. Why didn't you give me this book before ?" This was the response of a man who had finally accepted a copy of Science and Health that a friend had offered him several times.

Does God communicate in English? Spanish? German? French? Japanese? In Science and Health , Mary Baker Eddy, a great spiritual thinker and a follower of Christ Jesus, whose prayers resulted in abundant, tangible evidence of God's healing presence and power, has written: "God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, spiritual.