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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.

A young friend said that she wasn't sure she fully understood the statement by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science.

Years ago a friend and I were having a dialogue in which I was the student and she was very much the instructor. She was drilling me on the battle gear of a Christian, on the basic armor spoken of in the Bible.

As I looked out the window, I could see a small snake hanging, motionless, across the top rail of the garden wall. That evening two young relatives and I looked out through the same window.

" I have an extremely painful back," the patient told the Christian Science practitioner. "The cause of it may be strain from too much gardening or a sense of burden from preparing for my daughter's wedding, which will be quite a large affair.