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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.

In my own experience, I've found many worthwhile reasons for studying Christian Science, the law of God. Especially significant has been the help received in waking up from the waking dream of life in matter.

The Editors of the Journal asked me to write this. I cast about aimlessly for a while, thinking only of articles on youth and morality I didn't want to write.

A writer from California relates the following : A young divorced woman I worked with was frequently late to work or had to take time off because her young daughter was chronically ill. Although I didn't know what the illness was, I knew it caused them both grief.

Extracts from a speech given by David Cook, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. Journalists in America have a history of behaving badly.