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Are you satisfied with your progress? Or are you, like many people, having a struggle to feel that you're getting anywhere at all? Every individual has a yearning to progress, and many people actively strive to do so. Yet despite all our efforts we may feel thwarted.

Much attention has been paid lately in the media to the problems of high-achieving young individuals who become obsessed, sometimes dangerously so, with losing weight. How can Christian Science come to the rescue in such situations? In Science and Health Mrs.

We were watching a herd of elephants cross a river in Africa. Our guide—a lifetime observer of wildlife, their habitats and habits—was discussing the animals' freedom and innate ability to survive in the wilds.

In human affairs we all have seen at times the salutary effect of getting tough in rejecting the imposition upon us of an unfair or evil burden. In seeking to be healed of an ailment through prayer, it is also often helpful to get tough.

What makes a good tennis player? What makes a good pianist or a good orator? Among other things, practice. And what makes a good Christian Scientist? Certainly, practice is essential here too.

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.