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When someone is ill, he or she usually seeks treatment for the purpose of bringing relief or cure. Among the diverse types of therapeutic treatment in our world, spiritual healing, or prayer, presents a radically different view.

I've sometimes wondered what it might have been like to grow up in another age. To head west on a wagon train in conquest of the American wilderness; to sign aboard Columbus's ship and discover the New World; especially to work alongside the early Christians who devoted their lives to spreading Christ Jesus' message of salvation and healing.

The Church of Christ, Scientist On April 12, 1879, a small religious group calling themselves Christian Scientists quietly met in Boston—voting "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master [Christ Jesus], which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" ("Historical Sketch," Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17 ).

As we move toward the next century, everything seems to be speeding up. Computers and electronic networking make it easier for us to get more done in less time.

"The trial illustrated the self-destruction of evil. " Earlier Workshops and testimonies of healing have included instances of individuals overcoming drug abuse and its effect on families.

Most people will agree that sacrament is a religious ceremony observed by the followers of Christ Jesus to commemorate their special relation to God through Christ. It signifies the ratification of their obligation to God and symbolizes their separation from the things of the world through obedience to God's precepts.

When things seem as if they couldn't get any darker—when fear, doubt and opposition seem rampant, even overpowering—how comforting and encouraging it can be to turn to some of the Bible passages assuring us of God's loving, cherishing care for His children, for each one of us. Who of us has not been comforted by the Psalmist's reassurance that we can find safety "under the shadow of the Almighty," that God's truth is our "shield and buckler" (see Ps.

Christ Jesus ' words "I am the vine, ye are the branches" and "my Father is the husbandman" John 15:1, 5. have ever-recurring seasons of renewal for growth and health.

Are you without a job? Do you feel defeated? Do you have health problems? Doubts about the future? Are you tired of living? Then ask! Seek! Knock at the door of inexhaustible good, God! Your Father-Mother God is infinite Love. Christ Jesus exhorted his followers: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

I was in the house, working on a mechanical apparatus and worried that something might go haywire any minute. Then, sure enough, it happened.