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All afternoon and on into the night a relatively new Christian Science practitioner had been earnestly praying for a patient with an urgent problem. Through communion with divine Love she had seen through each mortal fear involved in the case and had vigorously and understandingly affirmed the present perfection of God and of man in His own image.

"Lord, teach us to pray. " Luke 11:1.

While I was a supervisor at a summer camp, it was my responsibility to see that the staff members upheld their duties to the program. I had assured my employer that I would keep him informed about anything that might affect the camp's welfare.

 This author writes, “Whether our home is threatened, or our friendships or business relations, whether our nations are threatened, or all of the human race, the spiritual basis for healing is the same. God is One and infinite; He is All, complete totality. Man continually reflects, or expresses, God; he images forth all God's qualities.”

For years after I became a student of Christian Science, the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy was merely a little book of rules to me.

Earnest students of the Bible often notice the emphasis Christ Jesus put on healing sin. For example, when he healed a man of palsy, he said, "Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

Mrs. Eddy founded and designed the Church of Christ, Scientist, "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.

The words used in Christian Science to describe man as the idea of God— expression, emanation, manifestation, image, likeness —all indicate an outgoing activity, the reflection of the divine nature and character. This teaching is premised on the fact that the kingdom of heaven is within man and that it is man's nature to reflect this true being.

Membership in The Mother Church and one of its branches is a fundamental protecting bond in human experience. Disruption of membership is the devilish work of the carnal mind, which Paul declares "is enmity against God.

What a privilege and obligation—to belong to The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and to one of its branches! What does it mean to be a Christian Scientist? Is an individual ready for church membership when he studies the Bible Lesson In the Christian Science Quarterly . every day, attends church services regularly, and refrains from drinking, smoking, and relying on drugs? Does membership in a Church of Christ, Scientist, provide more than a handy place in which to attend services of the religion of our choice and a job on a committee? Is it, in fact, a call to discipleship? We might ask ourselves what Jesus required of his disciples, and what made them effective church workers after Jesus had ascended, leaving them on their own to preach the gospel.