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You say your branch church membership is declining? What a good opportunity to awaken thought to a higher concept of God's Church—the Church that can never decline! Insofar as a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, embodies the spiritual definition of Church given in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, it can never decline or break up or be dismissed, for it is demonstrating the ever-present power of Christ, Truth.

"Christian Science and Christian Scientists will, must, have a history .

Man is always whole and healthy! Why? Because he is actually the spiritual image and likeness of God. Anything contradicting this truth is only an illusion of material sense.

Trinitarian views often differ among Christians, but it is a central issue in much theological study. One day I decided to see if a deeper understanding of the trinity would help me fulfill the command of our Master, Christ Jesus, to heal the sick in his name.

One day a young man graphically described for me the vast wheat fields of northern China, the place where he had lived as a child. In picturesque detail he portrayed the whole process of the growing of wheat.

The Bible describes two of Christ Jesus' disciples walking together to Emmaus. Luke 24:13-35.

Paul certainly understood God's message in terms of His unfailing grace. As a result, he took "pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

One Easter Sunday morning, the day after my annual Christian Science Students Association meeting, I was seated at a restaurant counter in a large city, having breakfast before going to church. Because my thought was uplifted by all I had heard the day before, by the anticipation of the church service, and by a book on Christian Science that I was reading, I hardly noticed the woman taking the stool beside me until she began to talk.

A major purpose of Christian Science is to enable any individual to pray to God in the way that Christ Jesus did and taught us to do, and to bring out the results he promised—healing sickness and destroying sin and its effects. Prayer is most often thought of as a private communication between an individual and God: a humble recognition of His power and presence, a desire to be lifted out of limiting human circumstances, and a commitment to better understand and obey His law.

Church —one of the Biblical terms spiritually interpreted by Mrs. Eddy in the Glossary of Science and Health —is defined there in two paragraphs.