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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is reaching the hands and hearts of more and more first-time readers. Those who've loved the book's message over years of study are breaking new ground in making Science and Health more widely available to a searching public, and they're finding new ways to work with others toward this goal.

Recently , a brown-bag lunch—an informal meeting—was held in The Mother Church Sunday School building in support of the Church 's daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, and its holiday program of gift subscriptions. We thought our readers would enjoy the following excerpts, beginning with some comments from J.

Most of us, at some point, have felt misunderstood, even rejected. Maybe you've felt that way.

Recently , a Christian Scientist in Australia wrote a letter to a special friend of her father's—a medical doctor, who had authored a book that she felt fosters a misconception about Christian Science. The following excerpts from that letter are printed with the writer's permission.

The 1994-1995 year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ordination of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as pastor over the Church of Christ, Scientist. In December 1894, Mary Baker Eddy ordained these books as pastor over The Mother Church, and a By-Law followed in the Manual of The Mother Church (see Art.

I could hear our two-year-old grandson singing over and over again a popular children's song, "A B C D E F G—H I J K L M N O P. " He couldn't seem to get beyond the letter P to complete "The Alphabet Song.

It seems to be human nature to look to others for help in times of great need. But what happens when we find ourselves in a situation where we are isolated from help? The Bible is filled with accounts of those who turned to God when all human aid seemed out of reach.

Christ Jesus spoke to the public in everyday language with parables and examples from daily life because, as the Gospel of Matthew records, the multitudes did not see, hear, or understand sufficiently in a spiritual way. See Matt.

At the beginning of February 1866, Mary Baker Eddy, then Mrs. Daniel Patterson, had fallen on the icy streets of Lynn, Massachusetts.

At one time I wondered if I really understood what Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy was showing me when it states, "Deny the existence of matter, and you can destroy the belief in material conditions. "   Science and Health , p.