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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.

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.