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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.

For centuries, maps and charts have provided travelers and explorers the assurance of knowing where the boundaries of a territory are and what routes promise safe travel. They can also indicate what and where the hazards of the terrain or sea are and where safe havens can be found.

As an amateur photographer, I enjoy taking slides during my travels. There's something about a color transparency that is more immediate for me than a color print.

When Mary Baker Eddy was twelve, the theological belief of predestination was prevalent in churches in the United States. This Calvinistic belief of "unconditional election" provided that some were "saved" and others were doomed to endless separation from God.

There's no question about it. Thousands of individuals the world over love Mary Baker Eddy.

In the late 1850s, the thunderclouds of war were gathering. At the bottom of the issue was the immorality of slavery.

One of the most endearing characteristics of that remarkable Biblical character David was his profound trust in the authority and wisdom of God. Shortly before the end of his reign he could proclaim, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

What does it mean to waver? Some definitions are "to show doubt or indecision .

What do we do if we have been praying for a long time about a physical problem and healing just doesn't seem to come? Do we abandon the teachings of Christian Science and resort to some other method of healing? In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy says: "The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death.