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A few years ago I had a toothache that persisted for several days and nights. It was so intense that, at times, I found I was unable to pray for myself.

On a clear day, as you cross a large lake to the east of the city where I live, you can see the city skyline on the horizon. It seems a wide expanse and a very long way, and yet you're aware that your vision is limited by the horizon and that there is much beyond this that you're unable to see.

" Several years ago, in our Sunday School we organized our classes by topics. We let the students know ahead of time what the topics were going to be, and they could choose any one that they wished.

" What constitutes a successful Sunday School experience for a student? Is it enough to think that a student has had a good Sunday School education if, after sixteen or seventeen years attending, he or she merely knows how to call a Christian Science practitioner and knows very well how to be a good patient? "Suppose all of us sit around a swimming pool for seventeen years, just talking about how to swim. When I turn twenty years old, I feel a push and I'm in the pool.

" We have to teach the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures, the scientific meaning. This is what's unique to Scriptural teaching in our Sunday School.

Almost everywhere we look in today's world, adversity and difficulty confront us. They may come as discordant family relationships, unemployment, homelessness, or sickness.

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.