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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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If we are deeply grateful for the healings we have already witnessed in our own lives through Christian Science, we doubtless yearn humbly to approximate more closely the love and healing work of the Master, Christ Jesus. In the Gospels we read that Jesus instantaneously healed all manner of sickness and limitation, including lameness, blindness, hemorrhaging, sin, and death —all without resorting to material methods.

One afternoon while I was watching some high-school students swim their laps in preparation for the weekend's competition, the champion was asked how she was able to win so consistently. She said, "I stand on the box, envision the race, and then dive in and swim it.

We're never helpless in the face of adverse material evidence. There's always something we can do when confronted by disease, lack, failure, or enmity.

"The Monitor . " Just these two words came.

The focus of prayer is not the self. A man may spend hours meditating about himself, or be stirred by the deepest sympathy for his fellow man, and no prayer will come to pass.

Part of every service in the Church of Christ, Scientist, is devoted to silent prayer. How clear and constructive is our prayer during these moments? As with all scientific prayer, there is no formula for silent communion with God in church.

Have you ever heard the inward voice? There are many accounts in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, of the still small voice coming to men as distinctly as sound. For instance, Abraham heard it just in time to spare the life of his son, Isaac.

Visualize if you will a rosebud, a rather tight rosebud. Lovely as it may be in its present state, not until it opens out completely is the perfect beauty of the rose revealed.