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Increased attention is being given by both religious and secular researchers to the interconnectedness of mind and body. There is a growing feeling that, in certain sense, the human mind creates its own reality and therefore has considerable control over its own conditions and functions.

Sometimes I've heard it said that Christ Jesus never asked anything of those he healed — that he just healed people, no questions asked. Is that true? If we study the New Testament, we find that the Master did often demand some sign that those he healed were willing to let the power of Christ, Truth, transform them.

The April Journal included notes from a Christian Scientist visiting Romania in May 1991 on behalf of the Clerk's Department of The Mother Church. Mrs.

Many people these days have a great yearning for spirituality in their lives. Yet many find it hard to define what they mean by spirituality.

She came down the steps of her town house, apparently ready for a trip into the city. At the bottom she was stopped short.

Today more and more people yearn for stability, for an inner feeling of security and peace that an acceptance of the surface appearances of life simply doesn't provide. Whether an individual realizes it or not, such a yearning is a desire to know God—to really know Him, not just intellectually as a concept, or in some theoretical way that's far removed from daily life.

True religion has consequences. We may not be used to thinking of an understanding of God and our relationship to Him as actually determining events or bringing profound change to the spectrum of human experience.

" All Christian churches have one bond of unity, one nucleus or point of convergence, one prayer, —the Lord's Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing that we unite in love, and in this sacred petition with every praying assembly on earth,—'Thy kingdom come.

For one hundred and ten years the pages of the Journal have been enriched by the insights, spiritual guidance, thoughtful warnings, and inspiration of Christian ministers. Though she founded a Church with no clergy, Mary Baker Eddy's early appreciation for dedicated ministers only deepened as the decades passed.

Just recently I visited a country whose language was foreign to me. While looking for something in particular, I met a very friendly young woman who could speak my language and was able to assist me.