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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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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.