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Have you ever felt that something in your past is affecting what's happening to you today? Perhaps you have had difficulty making friends, or getting good grades in school, so it seems impossible to think that something good can happen to you in a certain area; there seems to be no precedent for it. Or even if you have overcome a difficulty, maybe the memory of it is still negatively affecting your outlook on things.

Last month we told of individuals who are being encouraged, inspired, and healed through their first reading of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Accounts of lives touched by Science and Health continue to flow into the Clerk's and Publisher's offices.

Last October, members of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Dallas, Texas, met in support of local efforts to make Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy better known to the public. They realized that what they were about was something much larger than a one-time campaign to make a book better known in their community.

I had never been much of a newspaper reader. I would watch some news on television and hear bits and pieces on the radio, and that was about it.

When things go wrong and cares are pressing us down, we sometimes feel overshadowed by fear, and it looks as if we are helpless. Often our self-based thinking makes us inert and apparently unreceptive to God's love.

A number of years ago I read an article in The Christian Science Monitor about famous artists' paintings of twins. Each painting illustrating the article showed each twin's distinctness—in expression, attire, and demeanor.

Throughout his marvelous healing ministry, Christ Jesus was ever conscious of the fact that it was God, his Father-Mother Mind, who healed. He said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Never a dull moment!" is a phrase that some of us might be tempted to associate with anything but church work! Yet in the beginning of Science and Health , Mary Baker Eddy quotes Shakespeare's words "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. " Science and Health , epigraph page Have you ever thought of applying this idea to church duties? It can work wonders.

The writer of the following letter lives in Texas but travels extensively. Recently, he visited a church service conducted by the Christian Science group in St.

At a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in our local church I heard a woman express gratitude for her spiritual growth in Christian Science. She said she had previously felt that she was not really getting anywhere because she'd never had any important work to do at or for The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.