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Consider this: concepts such as huge, mammoth, giant, and minute, tiny, little, are relative. Something is big or small, near or distant, only in relation to something else.

A few years ago it was necessary for me to speak in front of a group a couple of times a week. After I had accepted this new position, I noticed that each day I felt as though I were being choked.

Rita Dove , when named to be poet laureate of the United States, talked about her writing in an interview in The Christian Science Monitor . "I keep coming back to the community," she said.

Mary Baker Eddy , Pastor Emeritus of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, includes in her Manual of The Mother Church a "Historical Sketch," describing important events in the Church's development. The following is her very first statement: "In the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest seekers after Truth went into deliberations over forming a church without creeds, to be called the 'Church of Christ, Scientist.

One of the synonyms for God clearly implied in the Bible is Mind . Divine Mind creates and knows everything that truly exists, and all that really exists is good, expressing the divine nature.

It is the heritage of each individual, as the child of God, to represent God's intactness and completeness. It is Love's, God's, will that not one of His children be deprived of any good.

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.