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"If divine Love is becoming nearer, dearer, and more real to us," we are told in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, "matter is then submitting to Spirit.

In an episode of the fictional television drama L. A Law , the actor on the witness stand, who was playing the part of a Christian Scientist, stated that Christian Science healing consisted of prayer and a faith that God would heal the disease.

When your life has been touched by the healing power of Christian Science, it's natural to want to share it with others. This interview with a Christian Science practitioner, Mary Ridgeway, shows just how naturally this desire can lead to public practice and how one's life and family can be blessed along the way.

A series of five special meetings was held on Tuesday following this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, to consider the transforming impact of the Christian Science textbook , Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The meetings looked specifically at the relationship of Science and Health to five Church Manual- based activities.

In the course of human history, prophets have made significant contributions to the spiritual advancement of mankind. Walking out of a past that could no longer hold them into a future of hope and promise, prophets through the ages have pointed human thinking away from materialism toward the purpose and will of God.

After the publishing of the ground-breaking textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the first periodical founded by Mary Baker Eddy was The Christian Science Journal in 1883. Her statement of its purpose is specific — it is "designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth.

Listeners in many parts of the world, such as the United States, aren't as familiar with short wave radio and its frequencies as are people who live in places where shortwave listening is much more common. Usually, AM and FM radio stations are located in one's local community, but listeners to short wave frequencies are often listening to programs from transmitters located hundreds and even thousands of miles away from where they live.

It was so evident at the meetings—the loving support that employees at The Mother Church receive from their spouses in the work they do! When an invitation was extended to spouses of employees to attend one of two Saturday morning meetings focused on Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, they accepted, prepared, and came (some of them from a considerable distance).

When Jesus' followers started to preach the gospel, they congregated in homes or open spaces because they didn't have temples. Their example shows that wherever we are, it is possible to take the true concept of Church that Christ Jesus left us: a church based on revelation.

Who's responsible for teaching people to be compassionate, honest, and morally courageous members of society? This has always been the work of parents. And, while business and educational institutions are newly considering their roles in character training, churches and synagogues have been at the heart of character education for a long time.