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Resurrection. What is it? Just a past incident, a once-a-year celebration on Easter Day which afterward drops as ashes at our feet? Resurrection is really a lifting up from the ashes of sickness and heaviness which seem so loaded upon mankind.

That unprecedented spiritual event when Christian Scientists around the world met simultaneously via satellite must have given everyone who was present reason for soul-searching thought and self-examination. The inspiring moments in that conference when Christian Scientists, gathered around the globe, united in prayer silently and audibly, moved this writer deeply.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Understanding infinity is far more than an abstract intellectual exercise. It can be a form of Christian Science treatment, which brings healing.

Because of her deep love for mankind, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, pioneered the work of the Christian Science practitioner. A practitioner is one who heals through Christian love and scientific understanding.

There are hundreds of identifiably different religious denominations in the United States alone—certainly many many more worldwide—each voicing its own particular message to humanity. What is it in the human heart that all these denominations seek to address? The normal individual wants and needs to love and be loved, to be well and active—whether he listens to any religious voice or rejects them all.

Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Christ Jesus' recognition of who he was and where he came from was as luminous as the sun. Many of Jesus' statements show clearly that he did not regard his own existence as having begun with human birth, nor his real status to be flesh and blood.

The transforming, purging power of the Christ is brought out by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "The honest student of Christian Science is purged through Christ, Truth, and thus is ready for victory in the ennobling strife. The good fight must be fought by those who keep the faith and finish their course.

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