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World thought generally views needed resources as being wholly material. But Christian Science brings a new dimension to this subject.

From the Directors: Should the Sunday School teach healing? Letters have come to The Mother Church inquiring whether Sunday School pupils should be taught how to heal, or if this teaching is the exclusive province of Primary class instruction. The answer is yes to the first question, no to the second.

Did Paul and Jesus ever meet? We know that Jesus made a practice of attending the great religious feats at Jerusalem, and Saul, as a Pharisee who had been a student there, would surely do so, even if this involved his journeying from Tarsus for the purpose; so it is conceivable that both might have been in the city at the same time on a number of occasions. Yet even after the Master had begun to preach, it would have been natural for a zealous Pharisee to take no interest in one who, to him, would have appeared simply an obscure Galilean carpenter, claiming, as others had and would, to be the Messiah of prophecy (see Matt.

Sharing the healing truths of Christian Science with someone who is troubled is a compassionate thing to do. And when a healing occurs, one is convinced that he has part in the most rewarding activity in the world.

I watched with much joy and anticipation as the first buds appeared on some new rosebushes in my garden. The buds unfolded, revealing the color and form of the flowers, so that it was very easy to identify the different horticultural varieties.

Christian Science Sunday School should stimulate spiritual growth for all concerned. This is to say that both student and teacher are involved in learning to depend on God.

When anyone seeks healing, what is he basically looking for? Freedom from pain, lack, fear? Perhaps. But isn't there a more fundamental motivation than seeking physical betterment? Doesn't mankind struggle for dominion—dominion over disease, over the physical body, over thoughts, emotions, anxieties, faults, and failings? In short, dominion over all? The Bible reveals that man has such dominion.

Christian Science teaches that what is to be proved true at any time is actually the present fact, for Truth is not affected by the variables of time, place, circumstance, or chance. These factors are finite and human, whereas Truth is God—constant, immediate, reliable.

By the very nature of infinity, God, the infinite One, must encompass all that is, must be the cause of all that is, must be all that is. Infinitude leaves no vacancy to be filled.

The publication of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy introduced Christian Science, a spiritually rational system with profound practical consequences, to a wide public.