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Let's say that you have firmly decided to pray and to study the Bible and the teachings of Christian Science until a physical difficulty yields. But after a while you feel you've done enough and decide to watch television.

Praying for others, as people awakening to prayer's effectiveness are increasingly doing, is certainly impelled by a sincere desire to help. It's important to recognize, though, that healing prayer in its truest sense involves something other than reshaping a familiar material world—even to benign ends.

One day while I was serving in a Christian Science Reading Room, a new student of Christian Science asked me where the "Daily Prayer" he'd heard church members mention could be found. I introduced him to the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy and showed him the page where the "Daily Prayer" appears.

For six days, only the sound of trumpets was heard as the Israelites marched around Jericho. See Josh.

Those who practice Christian Science conscientiously soon learn that God is the best and ultimately the only healer of all ills. Because they prove this conclusively for themselves, they do not feel the need to look for another healing agent, either for sickness or for any other situation.

We are told in the Bible that a lawyer asked Jesus a question, "tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus answered: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

An earnest, active Christian healer was once asked what, in his view, was the primary obstacle to healing. He replied without pause, "Smallness.

At this time of year, when so many people around the world are thinking about meaningful giving, we thought readers of the Journal would enjoy the following experience. My parents were not particularly religious.

A reader of Science and Health from Massachusetts shares a recent experience: Last Christmas the thought came to me to share Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures with a young man who stands at the corner of a very busy intersection every morning and sells newspapers. Although I usually don't buy from him, I always wave and smile, and he always seems so happy to see me and to smile and wave back.

When we were young parents, my husband and I met a Christian Scientist who was a great–grandmother, and we quickly became good friends. One day she told me that she prayed frequently to learn more about man as immortal.