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A number of years ago my husband took a new job and we moved to a city in a different part of the country. During the first week we were there, I was familiar with only one way to his office—the way from our home.

Mary Baker Eddy sets forth a brief and lucid summary of the method of Christian Science treatment in healing the sick in her article titled "Mental Practice" ( see Miscellaneous Writings , pp. 219-223 ).

From The Western Producer —a farming newspaper —Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada "Meditation—a weekly sermonette" "There are many people who are trying constantly to influence other persons, persons whom they love, who don't live their lives in a way that meets with the former's approval.

I have always loved the Wednesday testimony meetings held in Christian Science churches each week. They're open to everyone to hear what God is saying.

Christian Science is the Science of Christianity; it's religion that heals. It opens the way for every one of its students to work out his own salvation and find freedom from all that is evil—from sin, sickness, death.

THE EXILE IN BABYLON Sometimes in a marriage relationship there comes a moment of truth—a time when a couple face overwhelming pressures that have the potential to destroy their union. Israel confronted such pressures during its sixty-year Exile in Babylon, a period that threatened Israel's covenant with Yahweh.

Christian Science brings into clear view the precious, nurturing motherhood as well as the fatherhood of God. In so doing, it shows us the true, complete nature of man.

Although many healings through prayer in Christian Science are quick, even instantaneous, on occasion it may seem as though we just inch along, making little progress. At such a time we may find ourselves thinking, "If only I could see a little evidence of progress, a little movement in the right direction, I would feel encouraged.

Do we believe that every moment of Christ Jesus' life benefited the world? All Christians know that Jesus' prayers never failed to bless mankind. He was the Saviour of the world and did all that God ordained him to do to fulfill that mighty purpose.

In the Christian Science Sunday School, which I started attending when I was eleven, I discovered something wonderfully comforting and at the same time eye-opening: God is the Father and Mother of all; therefore, man is God's beloved child. This discovery of God's fatherhood and motherhood was particularly meaningful to me at that time because my mother had just passed on, and my father proved unable to care for my younger brother and me.