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Suddenly you find yourself no longer just a housewife or secretary or insurance agent, but elected to conduct the services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist! The First Readership is a priceless opportunity to serve God, the Cause of Christian Science, and mankind, and needs to take precedence in thought over every other duty or occupation. Reading can be a wonderful opportunity for the spiritual progress of anyone serving in this capacity.

Perhaps because of popular confusion that believes human will is synonymous with Christian Science, people may think intensity of thought is needed in healing prayer. But is it effective in healing? And if not, what is? Considering these questions, we begin to see that intensity of thought may be an effort to use mental means to make something be true that we believe is not at present true, but that we hope by prayer and concentration to make come true.

Christian Science makes a clear distinction between man, created in God's image, and so-called mortal man, formed "of the dust of the ground. " Gen.

To overcome evil, sickness, and death is a commitment of all Christian Scientists, and especially of class-taught students. Surely it is a commitment worthy of total dedication.

On the next to last page of The Christian Science Monitor, backing up to the editorial page, which it used to share, is the heading: "Opinion and Commentary. " It might well be asked, "Why should there be columns of opinion in the Monitor?" The question is particularly natural to those who have read what Mrs.

When something good is spoken about a person, a place, or an event, sometimes a voice is immediately raised to dispute part or all of what has been said. Disputing voices often seem to be present to discredit and resist what seems good in human experience.

For years I wondered about pain. What causes it? How to be free of it? And how could St.

In my study is a photograph taken from the moon looking toward the earth. The earth looks like a solid black disk against the backdrop of space.

To help and heal others is certainly a wonderful goal. Could there be any higher aim than to pray the prayer that heals our fellowman? The expression of brotherly love—the sharing of divine Love—comes from an understanding of God and accomplishes unlimited good.

God, divine Love, cannot be in physical space or confined to a location, a situation, a person, or a group of persons, for God is ever-present Spirit. Because of His omnipresence, God's caring is equal to every demand, to any emergency in all places, always.