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Not long ago, we received a copy of a letter that Mr. Forsyth, a British businessman—a student of Christian Science—sent to a colleague.

To study Christian Science is to follow the star of Bethlehem, to desire to understand the Truth and Love demonstrated by Christ Jesus. Christian Science heals, and those whose lives have been transformed by it treasure its healing power.

When Christ Jesus healed sickness, fed the multitudes with a few loaves and fishes, destroyed sin, and raised the dead, he demonstrated the perfect government of God, good. That which is perfect is immortal.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health , Mary Baker Eddy includes a chapter called "Animal Magnetism Unmasked. " She writes in her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection , of her reluctance to include the chapter on animal magnetism in the first edition of Science and Health.

The dawn of 1890 found Mary Baker Eddy at one of the most significant crossroads in her life. She had left Boston, Massachusetts, for Concord, New Hampshire, the year before to work on a major revision of her healing textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Vigorous cultivation of spirituality should be natural. The teachings of Christ Jesus impel each of his followers to till the soil of character, cultivating an understanding of man's true nature as the offspring of God.

There is a story about two people who liked to go rock collecting out in desolate areas. Sometimes they would fly to one particular place up in Alaska in a floatplane.

If we want to stop moving, an anchor is a good thing. If we want to go forward, it is not a good thing.

A couple of years ago, citizens in the United States were inundated with statistics, polls, and propaganda relating to national health care. Although no legislation was enacted at that time, surely it is right that we continue to consider the issue of health care seriously.

I often contemplate, "What is God, divine Mind, knowing right now? What is Mind seeing as the present state and condition of being?" If I am the image and likeness of divine Mind, then I must reflect what divine Mind knows— and I want to claim every single one of its powerful, healing thoughts as mine! One thing I have learned of divine Mind through Christian Science is the profoundly simple truth that God, Mind, is All. In Unity of Good , the author, Mary Baker Eddy, presents a dialogue between good and evil.