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Medieval history informs us that St. Francis of Assisi was marked with what is known as the stigmata.

She came all the way from Caracas, Venezuela. She was stout, hearty, full of life, and her eyes widened when she saw them.

An unsettling job transfer, a divorce, a rift between friends, a family member's demise—like a giant kaleidoscope, daily living often presents checkered relations. But must we suffer from each new twist in the flux of human existence? Christian Science moors us in the certainty that God is perpetual Love.

Years ago a small wedding group, of which I was a part, was being ushered by the dean of a theological school through the huge Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. Among the group were an architect, and a farmer from Iowa whom my friend, the young bride, called Uncle Billy.

One of the most pernicious suggestions being promoted today is the belief that sin is normal, that immorality is the accepted mode, and that "everyone is doing it. " This is mortal mind, or material, sensual thinking, using the big lie technique.

Once I had a Chinese magnolia that promised delight for years to come. But in his zeal to feed it well, our gardener overfertilized it.

The eighty-seven compelling statements in Mrs. Eddy's writings containing the word "proportion" or a derivative are well worth our searching out and pondering.

The light of divine Truth is forever revealing its own all-power and all-presence to be active right where the mental darkness called discord seems to be. It is revealing man's present completeness as God's spiritual expression.

The shaking up of false beliefs prior to their destruction is what Christian Scientists call chemicalization. "By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a material to a spiritual basis," Science and Health , pp.

A worthy objective .