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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.

The day we moved into our new home, just before Christmas, our newfound friend and helper remarked that she had always longed to have a Christmas carol sing but had never had a piano. Seeing ours, she said, "Why don't you have one?" To me there were plenty of reasons why we could not have one.

We're all aware of the human phenomenon that the higher we climb, the farther we can see. The vast panorama stretches out before us as we stand on the peak of the mountain or view the city from the top of a skyscraper.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus marks out for us the path of universal salvation. His Beatitudes deal with the qualities of Christliness, which when understood as God-derived and lived bring infinite blessings: harmony, health, peace, an awakening to our eternal life in God.

The instantaneous healing of an apparently broken bone was related in a testimony that I heard given by a young father recently. Now, ordinarily it isn't such a good idea to tell about someone else's testimony—it's better to give your own.