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For about two years I had been praying, off and on, about a growth on my eyelid. When the growth got larger, I became very discouraged and decided to have a doctor remove it.

A woman, burdened by illness for eighteen years, receives a letter from another woman healed in Christian Science, urging her to try it. She borrows a copy of Science and Health by Mrs.

I lived for a time in a small riverfront town that boasted a main street without traffic lights, a bread bakery without equal, and a pair of Christian churches without rivalry. Just across the way from one another stood a Christian Science church and a Protestant church whose denomination I no longer recall.

"You will scarcely conceive howe earnest his Majestie is to have this worke begonne. " These were the words that Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury and director of the King James Bible translation, wrote in his letter to officials at Cambridge University in July of 1604—just six months after James had commissioned the new Bible at the Hampton Court Conference.

One day while I was reading the Bible, the word atonement came to my attention, and I asked myself, "Do you fully understand the meaning of that word?" My answer was, "Not really. " I knew that it was important in my study of Christian Science to grasp the spiritual signification of atonement, so I researched Bible commentaries and concordances and pondered the explanation of the term in Mrs.

Christ Jesus didn't empathize with his fellow beings. He did, however, heal them—restoring broken lives to wholeness.

The writer who said, "Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish," turned a neat counterphrase on a well-known saying, but he did so at the expense of a truism, a truism which has been expressed endlessly, but never more powerfully than in Paul's "Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day, and for ever" ( Hebr. 13:8 ).

Christ Jesus was unique. He was uniquely dedicated to the things of Spirit.

We were talking about Shakespeare's observation, quoted in the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy, that adversity yields precious lessons.

It doesn't seem just that Jesus should have spent a long, dark night of sorrow in the garden of Gethsemane—much less been crucified. His exemplary ministry of healing had so uplifted mankind with spirituality that it could not lead him downward to defeat.