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There is a readiness in the human heart that opens the way for healing. This readiness was present when Mrs.

How comforting it can be for Readers in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, to know that though they may live in a place far from most other Christian Scientists—in Africa or Indonesia, for example—their church service has the support of every other Christian Science congregation throughout the world, because the Lesson-Sermon read in all branch churches on a particular Sunday is the same! When I had the opportunity of serving as First Reader, I would start preparing by stating the spiritual truths and denying the claims of error that relate to the entire world, since the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly is for the whole world. It is interesting to note that when Mrs.

The mountain climber is rewarded with widening vistas as he ascends. Meanwhile, the things below assume less and less significance as they gradually fade from sight.

It was Thanksgiving eve. With our houseguest, I had arrived early at church for the Wednesday evening testimony meeting.

Without exception every individual has a wonderful and perfect spiritual identity, and each one is unique and distinct. However, the frequent reminder "Be yourself "suggests that one may often have assumed a character contrary to his own individuality and therefore has failed in the basic necessity to know himself and to then act accordingly.

When one gains a spiritually based philosophy of life, many daily questions are answered and decisions are made with unburdened dispatch. Through a grasp of the nature of God and man's relationship to Him one can begin to perceive form, direction, definition, in his experience.

Have we been praying only for self or for all humanity as well? Do we sometimes become so engrossed in seeking solutions to pressing personal problems that we forget the significance of our relationship with all people, everywhere? Scientific Christianity embraces the understanding that God, divine Love, is our universal Father, providing all that is needed to maintain eternally the whole of creation in perfect harmony. In her article "The New Birth" Mrs.

The Christian Science movement is rightly named. It stands for a great revolution at the base of human thought beyond anything the world has known since Jesus' time.

When Peter voiced unselfish commitment to Christ Jesus at the Last Supper, he expressed a spirit of deep loyalty: "I am ready to go with thee .

The question whether homosexuality is a legitimate life style has raised intense debate. Some homosexuals feel their alternate approach to this area of human relationships is inherently natural to them.