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When I was a boy, I often spent summers at my grandfather's place in a small Florida community on the banks of the Alafia River. It was on that river, and in the woods that lined its course, where I first began to feel stirrings of a sense of reverence and wonder about the natural world.

Readers of this magazine and the other Christian Science religious periodicals often are comforted, inspired, or healed by what they read. For one who continues to be blessed by these articles and testimonies it will probably seem natural at some point to want to support these publications.

Health restores a life broken by illness. Joy replaces the sorrow of grief or loneliness.

Altrincham, Cheshire, England The new chaplain at Styal Women's Prison agreed that a Christian Science worker could use the "Chaplain's Hour" one Wednesday evening to show the video lecture The Ring of Truth. The chaplain conducted us to one of the houses, which was given over to educational use, where a room was arranged informally for the showing of the video.

I was beginning to feel a little guilty. Why couldn't I remember—or find it easier to testify to—the marvelous blessings God had given me that week? During the testimony period of the Wednesday church service, I often seemed to be depending on others to testify to God's tender, loving care—to the healing power of His law.

As I sat in church prior to a service, I was really grateful for each one who had contributed time and effort to make this meeting possible. Sometimes attending a church service each week might seem routine, mundane, even a habit or ritual.

When first told that Christian Science was the same method Christ Jesus used to heal the sick, an ailing mother with three small children shot back: "What did you say? Repeat that again. " Fifty years later Annie Macmillan Knott still recalled that memorable moment.

One afternoon one of my adult children telephoned. During our conversation she asked where Mrs.

At one time a friend of mine brought a new interpretation of the word man to my attention. We had been speaking about the concept of man as God's spiritual idea—in contrast to thinking of man as a material being, and so prone to limitation.

The First Commandment is so basic, so fundamental to Christ Jesus' teachings, that it would be hard to call ourselves Christians if we did not take this unchanging law of the Judeo-Christian tradition as the starting point for our prayers and for our daily lives. What does this commandment tell us? Setting the stage Let us first take a look at the Bible's short but significant introduction to the Ten Commandments.