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Anticipating her own death after years of illness and suffering, Caroline Bates wanted to give her husband, Edward, a memento of her love. She went to a nearby city to have a portrait made of herself.

" Chaos " has lately become a field of lively scientific study. As a result, some long-held beliefs are turning topsy-turvy.

The exhortation to "magnify the Lord" is familiar to most readers of the Bible because it is found several times in both the Old and New Testaments (e. g.

What a wonderful occasion is Christmas! But how essential that the material celebration shouldn't be allowed to obscure the spiritual message of Christmas and its true meaning. In an article entitled "What Christmas Means to Me," written for The Ladies' Home Journal, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few—or by none—and unutterable except in Christian Science.

"Of good report"—what you're saying about Report For The '90s Response to Christian Science: A Report For The '90s, Looking ahead to the 21st Century has been wonderful—thanks to you! This full-color, new publication has been designed to introduce the scope and interrelationship of our Church's worldwide activities to the public. Here's a sampling of what many of you recently have had to say about A Report For The '90s: "[The Report ] gives a wonderful idea of the scope of our church—our services, publications, and activities.

Whether at a shopping mall, on a college campus, or in the foyer of a church, a bulletin board is a great place for people to share information. You can learn a lot about an active community from reading local bulletin boards.

For those who are looking to God, divine Mind, for healing—and who are learning of the mental nature of human experience—it's simply impractical to ignore larger trends of thought in the sciences. Terms like genetics and DNA may sound distant and specialized to many of us.

The World Service of The Christian Science Monitor I am a 19-year-old [listener], brought up in India, and at present working in the marketing field. I have been following your station lately and found your programs quite interesting and new.

The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in acknowledging the remarkable progress in church growth made by her early students in the Chicago area, made this comment: "A great sanity, a mighty something buried in the depths of the unseen, has wrought a resurrection among you, and has leaped into living love. "   The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Most of us can probably recall occasions—on the world scene or in our community—in which an individual's firmness in standing for what was right helped him or her to surmount adamant opposition. Being firm in one's stand for the spiritual reality of God and man is important in Christian Science treatment, too.