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I can still see the dozens of wooden plaques in my school friend's kitchen. The one I especially recall announced, "Opportunity only knocks once, but temptation keeps on banging.

How wonderful to be asked to give Christian Science treatment to others! Students of Christian Science, when asked to pray specifically for another, can rejoice at the opportunity to glorify God through demonstrating His healing power. But if we're being asked for the first time to pray for another, or sometimes even after we've had some experience doing this, what if we find fear trying to choke our earnest desire to heal? How can we be free from this fear? In Science and Health, Mrs.

When Queen Elizabeth took the throne in 1558, England was a religious battleground. Ever since the reign of her father, Henry VIII, Protestants and Roman Catholics had been engaged in a virtual civil war.

Count your many blessings,—name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. Johnson Oatman, Jr.

Throughout human history, pure-minded prophets have appeared like shafts of sunlight piercing ominous clouds. In Bible times, facing challenging circumstances, they kept alive the spark of hope in divine deliverance.

What is needed to build a strong economy? Leaders in government and industry are working hard to find answers to this question. We can support their efforts through scientific, healing prayer—the most effective means of solving life's problems.

On Monday evening, June 7, following the 1993 Annual Meeting, a special fruitage meeting was held. Twenty church members from around the world told of their own experiences in reading Science and Health and of how they had felt its transforming power.

Editors' note: We thought you 'd enjoy—as we did—listening in on the following talk given to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The speaker is Barbara-jean Stinson, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science.

The words of St. Paul to the Corinthians both encourage and challenge us: "My beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Although an usher in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, may seem only to be greeting people, handing out copies of the Christian Science Quarterly or the Christian Science Hymnal , or showing someone to an available seat, the activity actually includes so much more. For example, the usher helps set the tone for the church service by praying in support of the harmony of the service and the prospering of the spiritual ideas included in the sermon.