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If there's one challenge that seems central to the teen years, it's being labeled as a teen-ager! (And all of the stereotyped implications that go along with the label. ) At every age, challenges or problems demand solutions—healing solutions.

The world often seems like a monstrously sinister machine, blind, insensible, destroying everything that man builds, fosters, loves, hopes.

Children's health care has become a major issue on the national agenda in recent years. For those who care about the First Amendment as well as families, one particular aspect of this issue has presented something of a moral dilemma: the care of children whose parents rely on healing prayer in time of sickness.

In The Christian Science Journal of October 1895, Mary Baker Eddy sent out this call: "I hereby notify the loyal Christian Scientists who use the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as their textbooks, to organize immediately a Sunday School for the children. " Ever since this announcement, teachers in Christian Science Sunday Schools have been nurturing the innate spirituality of children, helping them discover and understand their relationship to their one true Parent.

A new friend, upon learning that I was a Christian Scientist, recently asked me, "Is it the Christian Science Church that claims to heal? Do you think I could be healed? What does one have to do to experience a healing?" I enthusiastically responded to these questions by saying in essence, "The emphatic purpose of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to heal the sick and the sinning as did the Way-shower, Christ Jesus. Spiritual healing is going on right now, even as we talk, restoring health and harmony to people in all parts of the world.

When we apply our understanding of Christian Science to the renovating or restructuring that's needed in our life, does it sometimes seem as if we had only stirred up a lot of trouble? Do things seem to go from bad to worse? In dismay we may wish we'd left things alone. Of course, we don't stir up trouble just for the sake of stirring it up.

There are men and women in various parts of the world who are reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy for the first time. A unique and wonderful experience awaits them—seeing through new eyes the spiritual truths that Christ Jesus employed in his healing works, works he said his followers are to do.

We went to a friend's home recently for the evening. She has just completed her thesis for a master's degree in archaeology.

" I wish I had someone to talk to about this. " Sound familiar? Well, we do, so go ahead.

He knew that he had to leave them. Assuring his disciples that they could go forward to do the works that he had shown and taught them, Jesus prophesied that his Father would send the "Spirit of truth," the Comforter.