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Christ Jesus' healing work was astonishing to those who witnessed it. No surgical procedure, medication, therapy, or recuperation period was needed.

The subject of death and dying has received increased attention in recent years as people seek ways to be better prepared to deal with what appears to be the inevitable conclusion to mortal existence. In this effort we cannot afford to overlook the message of Christ Jesus' resurrection from the grave, as well as the fact that he raised others from death.

A loved hymn familiar to many Christians includes the refrain "I will cling to the old rugged cross, /And exchange it some day for a crown. " George Bennard, "The old rugged cross," 1913 I sang it often with my family and friends and felt its spirit of deep faith.

In Christendom, Easter has great significance. At Easter Christians commemorate the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

To me, one of the most moving passages in Scripture is the one in which Christ Jesus' disciple Peter hears the cock crow at the end of a dark night. The previous evening he had told Jesus that he was willing to go to prison or the grave for his sake.

Last year Sandy Mathiesen, a member of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, D. C.

The word suggestion means a proposal or something implied as a possibility. An aggressive suggestion would be a proposal coming to our thought over and over with great persistency.

A college campus doesn't always seem like the most promising place to learn about God and spirituality! Just before I left for college, a friend told me that a popular magazine had given my university the dubious honor of being ranked the number one drinking school in the nation. While I didn't want to drink or smoke, I did want to participate actively in college life and wondered how I would fit in.

We can make of the Christian Science church services we attend merely casual, perfunctory experiences, or we can make of them holy, uplifting, healing, redemptive experiences. Which shall it be? Do we feel that just taking the body to church and plunking it in a pew takes care of our obligation? Do we say, in effect, "Here I am God—go ahead and bless me!" If we are reluctantly present physically and are stubbornly absent mentally, what profiteth it us? Does a physically present deaf ear help us? Or anyone else? Do we attend church because we think we should, because we fear that if we don't, we're going to get chastised for it sometime? Or are we drawn by the irresistible, all-loving attraction of Spirit? We know that Church is not, in the truest sense, a material place we go to but a divine idea we take with us every day, wherever we go.

George Fox , the founder of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, was born into a poor family in a small village in Fenny Drayton, England, in 1624. He was self-educated and self-ordained as a religious leader.