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In thinking recently about my relationships, it became apparent that I needed a better understanding of the commandment "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. " Matt.

The world yearns for the redemptive, healing power of Christ, Truth. And yet this same weary world, despite its suffering, sometimes seems indifferent, cold, even hostile toward its liberator.

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.

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When I look back on the experience of Primary class instruction in Christian Science, I think of it as a unique step taken, guided and guarded by God. The Bible promises, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Sometimes it's good to take a familiar Bible passage and just think about it—come at it as if for the very first time, make a conscious effort to put aside for a while all the historical, cultural, and linguistic background one may have about the text, and simply listen quietly to what it has to say. A while ago I decided to study in this way the account of Christ Jesus' temptation found in the fourth chapter of Matthew's Gospel.

Are you holding Christian Science church services? Even if you are not yet a branch of The Mother Church listed in The Christian Science Journal, you may well be a budding branch! In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy gives clear guidance on organizing churches. Often these churches have their beginnings when students of Christian Science gather together to hold services with our pastor, the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

I learned an important lesson in my first year of graduate school. In one of my classes, the students and the professor discussed various theories of design.

Some time before my mother passed on she spoke with me about eternal life and the confidence that she felt in the continual and progressive expression of life—even beyond death. She pointed out that this life should not be burdened with grief.

For some time, a number of years ago, I felt burdened by cynicism and gloom. In those days I would watch small children at play and wonder how the freedom and joy I had felt so naturally in childhood could evaporate so completely.