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Heaven is here. Here? In the midst of all this misery, insecurity, confusion, violence, heartache, and disease? No.

We love what Christian Science has brought to our lives. As a result, we read the weekly Bible Lessons outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly , subscribe to the periodicals, and join in the church services.

Have you ever thought much about the way spiritual growth and healing go together? When a healing comes quickly, or primarily through the prayers of a Christian Science practitioner, we may feel sometimes as though little, if anything, has changed in terms of our spiritual growth. Conversely, if we're praying about a stubborn difficulty over a period of time, we may feel we're having plenty of spiritual growth but not the healing we expect.

Whether we are employed by a small company or by a large corporation, whether we are operating our own business or managing family affairs, the study of Christian Science helps us by revealing a spiritual view of business that can be made practical in our lives. Business on the human scene is conducted in the marketplace.

The period from the end of the fifteenth century to the end of the nineteenth was one of wonderful discoveries. Many different motives impelled the great migration of Europeans to the New World—the Americas—and later the migration of Easterners into the North American West.

A desire for usefulness has motivated mankind from earliest times. But how can an individual become more useful, become more productive? Certainly one can pursue a good education, exert conscientious effort on the job, be cooperative, assume responsibility for getting things done.

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.