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Report from East Germany In November 1989, Christian Science church services were held in Leipzig, Erfurt, and Karl Marx Stadt in the German Democratic Republic. This simple statement might not appear remarkable, were it not for the fact that Christian Science services had been banned in East Germany for nearly four decades.

The Psalmist exclaimed, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" ps. 133:1.

The joy of being a Christian Scientist rests on the joy that is born through the worship of God. The Christian works of victory over sin, disease, and death are surely great cause for rejoicing.

A cause is that which produces an effect. The Cause of Christian Science certainly produces lasting and profound effects on its adherents— the effects of regeneration, spiritualization of thought, healing.

The Cross and Crown seal on Mary Baker Eddy's writings and the Christian Science periodicals reminds Christian Scientists the cross is necessary on their way to attaining the crown of salvation. Before heaven can be realized, that harmonious state of being which Christ Jesus said is not a place "here" or "there" but "within" man ( Luke 17:20, 21 ), mortal mind's resistance to spirituality must—and can—be overcome.

When our children were very young, they used to tease each other unmercifully—much to my dismay. Often, one would try to get the other to accept some incredibly tall tale.

Sometimes we are too inclined to accept an incomplete sense of what we are. Loneliness, discordant memories, waves of fear, feelings of inadequacy, may break in upon our thinking and rob us of the normal dominion that is our birthright as sons and daughters of God.

God is magnificent! And He expresses His magnificence through us, His cherished offspring. Christ, Truth, reveals this precious message to every one of us continuously.

Nothing is more basic to Christianity than the culmination of Christ Jesus' ministry in his resurrection. Sorrowing onlookers had seen Jesus crucified and laid in an earthly tomb sealed with a rock.

I have realized the practice is not confined to how much time one spends in a given place, office or home, or how many hours one sits by the telephone waiting for a call. Without the true sense of availability, one could sit by the phone for hours and not hear it ring.