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The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, is the friend of sinners.

Christian Science can help develop the spiritual understanding to overcome the fear of death. It teaches that, in reality, there is nothing to be experienced but life, now or ever—life beautiful, joyful, buoyant! Life! What a wonderful word! With a capital L it stands for God.

Life in and unity with God is the unchanging status of man's true being. Human thought sees it as a vivid, conscious sense of oneness with the substance of divine Love.

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.