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"You're going to start Christian Science services in your town?" our friends asked. "Why? Are there other Christian Scientists there?" We answered that we knew of no others yet.

What has happened when a pregnancy has miscarried? Can an idea of God be terminated or lost? Certainly not. Then if God governs everything, is this God's will? Is it "nature's way" of correcting a mistake? Both these questions stem from a belief that there is life in matter.

Christ Jesus loved the childlike thought—receptive and yielding so quickly to good. He said, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

There is an island that belongs to the birds. Each evening at sunset flocks of ibis, herons, egrets, and pelicans fly into the embrace of the trees on the island.

Most of us have encountered the human problem of losing something we possessed. We not only lose objects we value, but we are also faced with the sense of losing companionship, our health, employment, or financial security.

A Christian Scientist once told me to wake up from my "daymare. " But a daymare is no more real than a nightmare.

Christ Jesus, in the face of ridicule and disbelief regarding his professed sonship with God, declared a dynamic truth when he stated in no uncertain terms, "I and my Father are one. " John 10:30; This saying upset the traditional, doctrinal beliefs of the Jews and brought upon him the angry resistance of the carnal mind, which was impervious to the spiritual truth Jesus expressed.

Spirit, God, is unconquerable. Our true being is never a despairing mortal.

When I was a little girl, a large urn filled with boiling liquid was accidentally dropped on me. I was severely scalded from my forehead to my waist.

What constitutes genuine prayer—words or thoughts? Words of prayer can fit multiple patterns of speech. There's the prayer of humble petition: "Help me, O Lord my God.