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Is any disease incurable? No! A so called incurable disease is one for which, from a medical standpoint, no medicinal or surgical cure has been found. But there is a law of God applicable to the healing of every disease—chronic, crippling, or malignant.

The story is told that a venerable sage, asked what in life had given him the greatest satisfaction, replied, "A child who went down the road singing after he had asked me the way. " Many of us as parents and teachers know the joy of helping a child find the way in life.

"I feel I'm hindering this healing of my daughter. She's no better.

Who at various times has not felt a deep urge to reach out and help a friend struggling to maintain his way in life? Many have become so forgetful of themselves in their desire to help others that they have found themselves lifted from their own worries and fears, and often even healed of a physical illness. This basic element in humankind, this urge to help and extend kindness to one's brother, is universal and inherent in human beings.

The commercial jetliner taxied up to the concourse and discharged its passengers, among them the visiting grandparents of a small boy. After the greetings were over and the small boy had been given his present, he turned to his parents and asked: "Why do Grandpa and Grandma live up in the sky?" From his viewpoint, his question wasn't at all humorous or ingenuous.

Do we sometimes wonder why Mrs. Eddy's early students had such remarkable results in their healing work? Are we even tempted to think that good healing work is not going on today, when thousands of grateful people testify to the contrary? True, the early workers had Mrs.

The position Christian Science takes toward healing is that of radical reliance on God. Curing disease through prayer alone, Christian Science makes no concessions to matter.

In an incredulous world it is sometimes hard for one whose life has been impressed with the belief that man is material to assent to spiritual healing methods. One member of a family may be highly trustful of God's unlimited power and choose to rely on His complete and flawless authority, as taught in Christian Science.

Unborn children! Startling thought indeed, yet almost all of us have at least some of these children. Unfinished tasks asking for completion.

Ongoing association project "Several years ago," reports a Christian Scientist, "a guest in our home asked if he could have the book that was by his bed. It was Science and Health.