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How does one describe the actual experience of God's healing presence? What words can accurately convey that profound moment when pain and suffering, fear and hopelessness, melt away? Here's one example from Psalms: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

As announced at Annual Meeting and again in the August Journal, this fall the Publisher of the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy is releasing an English edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures designed especially for first-time readers. This edition of Science and Health will be available at Christian Science Reading Rooms and bookstores by October 1.

In this space in the August Journal, some of the challenges and opportunities facing Christian Scientists today were outlined in an article entitled "Why now?" It summarized the current challenges to religious freedom in the United States, and to spiritual healing in general and Christian Science practice in particular. It touched on some of the ways people are reaching out for the garment's hem of Christ, Truth.

It's heartwarming to those working with the Publisher of the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy to see strictures on sharing Science and Health being broken through. The flow of reports from individuals and branch churches continues to grow.

Not long after the resurrection, Peter and six fellow disciples, still not comprehending Christ Jesus' great victory over death, returned to their trade as fishermen. Toiling all night, "they caught nothing.

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.