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In early Mediterranean cultures certain laws were inflexible. To the ancient Hebrew, betrothal was a binding contract; and if a bride-to-be was found illegally with child, she was subject to death by stoning.

One Wednesday night I was going home from church so uplifted by the healing testimonies given and the inspiration of it all that I was singing happily, utterly confident that man is always spiritually secure in God's creation. Then suddenly my thought fell down with a thud! "Why do I have to go home— to confusion, to the harshness of human emotions, judgments, and disappointments? I really don't want to go home at all!" I finally realized.

The rose garden was beautiful, and I found myself wishing I could have one too. But that was an impossibility for me at the time.

The practice of Christian Science pours divine energies into human consciousness, and these energies cleanse, invigorate, and heal, putting individuals progressively under the control of God, divine Mind. God's qualities—love, wisdom, health, for example—are divine energies.

How does the active thinker and doer deal with the aggressive anxiety pressures of today's world? In an article in The Wall Street Journal , citing the tremendous pressures facing business-school deans, one beleaguered dean said, ".

One time I took a friend who was not a Christian Scientist to a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. There were quite a few testimonies that evening, so afterward I asked my friend what he thought of the meeting.

Recently it was reported in our town that a clergyman had preached a sermon in which Christian Science was taken to task for what he called its "preposterous" teaching—the teaching that evil and disease are "unreal. " When a student of Christian Science heard the criticism, she thought that the clergyman's comment had missed much of the point of Christian Science teachings, but she also realized that there was nevertheless an essential truth stated when the clergyman referred to the unreality of evil and disease.

When I was a youngster, my dad was transferred to a small town in a distant state. The entire family made the trip first, and then my dad made a trip back to complete the move.

A little word? But a word big in meaning when we begin to understand that God is All, that divine Spirit is absolutely infinite. Christ Jesus proved God's power to heal all manner of disease.

Never is a more precious gift given to us than the privilege of watching the blossoming of a spiritual concept in thought—from its beginning stages, tightly wrapped, hardly indicating the beauty to come, to the full blossom and fruition that pours forth God's praise. Never planned, frequently surprising, these stages come with the variation of prairie rains—from the low, quiet rumble of our intuitive listenings to God to the brilliant and breathtaking flashing, the illuminations of spiritual inspiration and healing.