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The Christian Science Monitor has been widely acknowledged as a dependable, informative, constructive, fair-minded newspaper. It is all of these.

The prayer that heals, Christian Science teaches, is more than words. The power that brings spiritual healing is God, divine Truth and Love, operating through divine law to improve human consciousness.

When a newspaper editor questioned Mrs. Eddy about what was nearest and dearest to her heart, she answered: "To your courtesy and to your question permit me to say that, insomuch as I know myself, what is 'nearest and dearest' to my heart is an honest man or woman— one who steadfastly and actively strives for perfection, one who leavens the loaf of life with justice, mercy, truth, and love.

Giving is an essential element of Christian love. We are instructed in the New Testament to love one another, to return blessing for cursing, and to give as freely as we have received.

The annual meeting of a Christian Science Students Association is a jubilee of Spirit. It's an occasion for the celebration of Truth.

Once when I was feeling burdened, I spoke of several problems with some intensity to a friend. She said quietly: "You know, you should watch your adjectives.

Somewhere along the way we may have picked up the notion that spiritual growth is accomplished by constantly adding spiritual ideas to the memory banks of a computer-like consciousness— the premise being that spiritual growth is the mere accumulation of spiritual facts. If we go along with this belief, we may find ourselves unthinkingly reading, and perhaps collecting, everything we can find on the subject of Christian Science, in hopes it will make us more spiritual.

Occasionally, although the letter of Christian Science is clear to us, a desired healing seems slow. What is needed here? Often it is spiritual conviction— knowing that we are "healed" because, in our true and only being, we are immediate reflections of the one perfect One.

When its presence is accepted, Christ heals. Those healed by Christ Jesus proved this centuries ago, and many are proving this today.

I always thought I was prepared to tell others about Christian Science. But then, while I was explaining to an inquiring friend some of the basics, with Science and Health in hand, she said, "Some book! Got a spare?" And there I sat with my one and only copy—leather and inscribed, no less (a gift from my father), all chalked up, scribbled in, and brimming with metal markers and bits of paper bearing citations of special note.