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The prospect of teaching a Christian Science Sunday School class is wonderful. Yet actually facing the class can at times be daunting.

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes of the ever resurrection dawn: "This glad Easter morning witnesseth a risen Saviour, a higher human sense of Life and Love, which wipes away all tears. With grave-clothes laid aside, Christ, Truth, has come forth from the tomb of the past, clad in immortality.

A strong and common bond among Christian Scientists is the love and reverence they feel toward Mary Baker Eddy. They hold a profound conviction that the Science of Christ she discovered is, in fact, the revealed Comforter promised by Christ Jesus.

One afternoon of November 1989, the personnel director informed me that my next assignment would be in North Africa but did not give further details. Now, in the lexicon of the foreign service, North Africa stretches from Somalia to Western Sahara.

Procrastination . That's a word that used to make me cringe with guilt (and sometimes still does).

Eleven years or more after his conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul along with Barnabas began his first missionary journey. After traveling through Cyprus, they crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Asia Minor and probably continued eight miles up the river Kestros to Perga.

Paul , the great Christian apostle, was a man who knew what he was talking about. He had seen a great light and heard Christ speaking to him.

I discovered recently how rewarding it is to set a goal, in our daily study and prayers, of consistently moving beyond mere belief in God—where thought often settles down too comfortably with familiar words —into spiritual understanding, where healing works are accomplished. Although this certainly takes an effort, particularly in emptying out all the material concerns that would clog thought, spiritual understanding is natural to us.

Last year, in a letter to Christian Science teachers and students associations, The Christian Science Board of Directors invited them to "share with the Clerk of The Mother Church the demonstrations you make individually or collectively in forging a pioneering path of relevance for church within your community. " The replies have been so inspiring that we wanted to share a sampling with readers of the Journal.

Back in 1986, when I completed my term as an Associate Editor for the religious periodicals, at first I felt totally liberated. No more writing on demand—those nearly-every-week editorials that the Editors are required to write for The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and The Herald of Christian Science.