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Radiance , vigor, promise, beauty, health, loveliness, grace, comeliness, freshness—qualities associated with the prime of youth. And yet, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy indicates that these qualities should be just as evident in advancing years.

The healing ministry of the early Christian Church was shaped in a considerable degree by an important group called the Ante-Nicene Fathers. These pioneers, numbering about thirty men, provided leadership after the time of Christ Jesus and the apostles.

Christianity offers great hope for the bereaved and grieving. As Christ Jesus promised his disciples, "Your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

In prayer we feel a "kindling" of the heart by Christ, Truth. As we reach out to God, divine Love, and realize some measure of His glory, our hearts burn with gratitude and joy.

The mental atmosphere in Boston's Tremont Temple on March 16, 1885, would likely have been daunting to most speakers trying to explain what must have seemed a very different way of being a Christian. The thoughts of the nearly three thousand attendants ranged from benignly curious to highly skeptical to openly hostile.

It is the summer of 1866. A boy waits for his mother on Lynn Beach, Massachusetts, while she hitches their horse and goes for water.

Have you ever felt stalled? Sometimes it's not clear what steps to take in solving a problem. Sometimes, even though lots of steps have been taken, they don't appear to lead anywhere.

Recurring specters of unhappy memories challenge many individuals in their private lives; but such specters are not always personal. The conscience of this century is perplexed by the recollection of certain historical events that seem too horrible to contemplate.

The human mind's almost habitual mode of reasoning takes for granted that we have an internal mental world and look out upon an external physical world. The human mind assumes that our consciousness is in our body, not the other way about—that the fleshly body is actually in human consciousness.

Why would a person want to share a book with the world, if doing so means losing one's high standing in society and possibly even being accused of being insane? Why would someone want to share the ideas in that book if it would mean having to accept transient accommodations and homelessness instead of a free, secure house provided by a wealthy sister? Choosing to ignore such dire predictions and to bear such unjust humiliation are just two examples of the difficult choices Mary Baker Eddy faced when she accepted her calling to be author of a book essential to the world's salvation. To friends and intellectual critics alike, the aspiration to write, publish, and distribute Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was a venture inevitably doomed to failure, and one that promised nothing but ridicule for its author.