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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.

The student of Christian Science gets a special blessing from reading the periodicals of the movement—a strong sense of fellowship with other Christian Scientists. He not only benefits from the fresh ideas the articles express, but he learns from the experiences of others.

This is a great age of human goodness. Everywhere men reach out to their fellow-men.

Some years ago a friend said to me, "I used to believe church elections were governed by God, but now I wonder if it is only personal sense. " At the time I was tempted to agree with her.

A parent writes about his son When he was a little fellow, Wally found it tough to keep pace with his spirited older brother and sparkling sister. Then when another brother came along, also gifted, he found it harder yet to admit his own worth.