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It is recorded in the New Testament that Jesus restored physical sight on several occasions. His real mission, however, was to heal humanity of mental blindness, or ignorance of God and His perfect spiritual creation.

Getting the most out of one's study of Christian Science involves recognizing and demonstrating its spiritual nature. Because the Science of Mind-healing is concerned with thought, and is therefore a scientific method of mental healing, it is sometimes mistaken for a merely intellectual system.

Almost everyone at some time yearns to be needed and wanted. If we ourselves are truly expressing love, regardless of how people may have neglected or rejected us, we can feel loved.

The Bible is filled with admonitions to praise and glorify God. Multitudes of sincere worshipers have earnestly desired to obey that admonition.

After sending his joyful final letter to the church at Corinth, Paul set out for Greece, where he stayed three months (see Acts 20:2, 3 ). Acts recounts neither his preaching nor his literary activity in Greece; but in all probability it was during this period, about a.

Have you wanted to give a testimony of Christian Science healing but been afraid to? Or talked longer than you had intended? Or forgotten an important point when giving a testimony? These questions bring another question: Have you ever thought of preparing in advance to give a testimony? Every week inspiring accounts of healings can be heard at testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, Christian Science Societies, and Christian Science college organizations. Mrs.

The Bible records that when Christ Jesus cured the man with dropsy, he "took him, and healed him, and let him go. " Luke 14:4; It is clear from the various gospel accounts of healing that the Master was not mesmerized by the appearance of disease, even though he evidently saw the need sometimes to take the patient to one side, away from the crowd, before he addressed himself to the difficulty in order to heal him.

Some of the greatest healing experiences recorded in the Bible are briefly told. We need not on that account, however, be deprived of the tremendous significance for us of these evidences of God's care.

Why do we sometimes find ourselves struggling with a comparatively small problem that seems to defy healing in Christian Science? The basic difficulty arises from the supposition that there is an evil mind, or mind in matter, whose misty conceptions obscure the reality of perfect God and His idea, man. But we do not have to accept this supposition.

The demonstration of the power of God, divine Mind, through healing is an essential aspect of Christianity and Christian Science. Faith, hope, expectation, are building blocks of prayer.