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When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. Mary Baker Eddy Miscellaneous Writings, p.

As a boy, I was extremely impressed when I received a compass as a present. Later, the leader of a youth group showed me how to use the compass to regain my orientation if I became confused on a hike.

As free moral agents, Christian Scientists champion the practice of democracy wherever it exists. They know that the political liberties exercised in a democratic society—such as free worship, free speech, free press—testify to the individual's inalienable right of free thought.

When I was a new student of Christian Science, I was informed that in the state where we lived I had the legal right to claim for my children certain medical exemptions and freedom from taking courses of study contrary to my religious tenets and practices. Parents, though, must file a form requesting these exemptions.

For most of us the virgin birth isn't something we think about daily. But it must have been important to the Founder of Christian Science, because at the time of the building of the Original Edifice of The Mother Church, the question came up.

How delightful! It was going to snow! I was in New England a few weeks before Christmas, and because I live in a subtropical area, I'd been hoping to see some snow. That would surely make my Christmas something quite special.

World peace starts with all of us in our own homes. It is the combined product of individual peace.

Today the world cries out for love. Headlines and newscasts seem almost to beg for the comfort of something beyond materiality.

Are you looking for a guideline in your daily thinking and acting? Can monotheism be that guide? Can we apply the worship of one God in a practical way, a way that leads to healing? As we acknowledge only one God we begin to see that there is only one creative intelligence, the divine Mind, the central power governing the universe. Christian Science shows us that we can trust this power to govern our individual lives.

In the book We Knew Mary Baker Eddy George Wendell Adams relates a story Mrs. Eddy told in one of her classes.