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"To understand one another .

It is timely to remind Christian Scientists of Mary Baker Eddy's long-standing counsel regarding the practical wisdom that accompanies the practice of Christian Science. The right to worship and to practice one's religion freely is, of course, something precious to many people throughout the world.

Many years ago my mother was brought home from the hospital; the doctors advised my father that they could do no more for her. They had little hope she would live more than a few days.

Surely not as a fragile, temporary vessel in which we seem briefly imprisoned. The nobility and freedom of true being are seen in Paul's words to the Corinthians: "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

When Mrs. Eddy gave its final, full name to the textbook that she wrote to explain and establish her discovery of Christian Science, she decided upon the title, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

When Mary Baker Eddy, through divine revelation and pure reason, discovered Christian Science, she also recognized the inescapable demand for proofs of its practicality. She therefore subjected the theory to documentation over a period of nearly ten years in public practice before she gave the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," to the world.

The crucial question for those who are sufficiently interested in Christian Science to investigate its teachings, naturally is, What does the work? With few exceptions, interest has been aroused by some notable case of healing, hence the inquiry; hence, too, the answer, that it is the truth which does the healing,—which makes free,—as Christ Jesus so long ago said it would. At this point it is well to remember that if the great Teacher had assigned some other basis to his healing work than the action of the truth, had he offered some one of the religio-philosophical theories of the time, he would doubtless have been listened to without the opposition and wrath expressed when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The question is often asked, "What are the qualifications for a practitioner of Christian Science?" and in trying to answer this question it may be well to define the term Christian Science. No one can do this as clearly as has Mrs.

So your church doesn't have a Christian Science practitioner? I don't believe it! Why, it has you, doesn't it? Ah, you say you're not a practitioner. I wouldn't be so quick to accept that and neither should you.

The evidence of Christian healing—what does it mean for mankind? This special issue of the Journal includes reports of Christian Science healing—as has every issue of the Journal since its founding more than a century ago. What do these healings mean? Longtime readers may almost take these reports for granted.