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One night as I was studying Science and Health I looked out the window and saw a new moon. I thought, "I am not tempted to believe there is only a little piece of the moon up there, just because I can see only this phase of it.

In 1895, Mary Baker Eddy took a significant step to safeguard the purity of the revelation of Christian Science. She announced: "Humbly, and, as I believe, divinely directed, I hereby ordain the Bible, and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' to be hereafter the only pastor of The Church of Christ, Scientist, throughout our land and in other lands.

Proper self-appraisal opens the door to the healing of alienation from others and awkwardness with others. Human self-knowledge is best accomplished by catching through Christian Science ever-increasing glimpses of the harmonious divine nature in ourselves and others.

Writing from a Roman prison to the Philippians about A. D.

When Christ Jesus—and following him, Mrs. Eddy—healed even extreme cases of disease or sin, their statements of truth were simple and strong.

How much do we love our church? How much healing is in our concept of it? Are we lifting our gaze beyond the externals— beyond the traditional steepled building, the impressive monument to religion that is pointed out to the city's visitor, beyond even the simple, small room that holds a few earnest worshipers? Are any of these truly "Church"? Natural and popular expressions, yes, but only symbols, nevertheless. Is there even one word describing any of these outward symbols in the definition of "Church" in the Christian Science textbook? Mrs.

The title of this article is perhaps misleading. Ideally the intellectual and the spiritual, the letter and the spirit, should complement each other.

Readers in Churches of Christ, Scientist, feel the challenge of tremendous opportunity. They read to expectant congregations messages that are spiritually radical in premise, revolutionary in promise, and both tender and persuasive in appeal.

Mortal existence might be likened to "chaos and old night. " To unenlightened thought, good often seems without foundation and subject to destruction and decay, while evil seems to predominate in almost every facet of experience.

Peter and John, the Scriptures relate, healed a man who was "lame from his mother's womb. " Acts 3:2; He had been born a cripple, but the disciples proved that the power of the Christ, Truth, is able to overcome a condition of lameness despite its long duration or supposed incurability.