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Sometimes students of Christian Science wonder how relevant the Manual of The Mother Church is. Occasionally we may hear someone say that the Manual should be subject to change just as the Constitution of the United States is amended to keep up with changing times.

Prophecy is usually thought of as foretelling the future, predicting human events yet to come. But this falls far short of the Christianly scientific definition.

Early students of Christian Science sometimes wrote to Mrs. Eddy or to The Christian Science Journal or the Christian Science Sentinel , asking for answers to particular questions.

The forces of Mind, God, are available to every individual on this earth. Many of those who have already utilized these forces have received the benefits of healing and improvement of character through Christian Science.

An important point of the faultless logic of Christian Science is that every material error is a counterfeit of some spiritual truth. Error has no actual power to reverse truth, for, in spiritual reality, Truth cannot be reversed.

A Christian Science healing is not just an indication that yesterday one had an illness and has recovered, or that a broken bone has knitted. It is an awakening to the continuity of well-being, to the fact that there has never been an illness or a fracture, since man is spiritual and has always been preserved intact by his creator.

Young people today are seeking serious involvement with a movement that's going somewhere. The Church of Christ, Scientist, is spearheading the most progressive movement on this planet: the movement to wake men up to the spiritual truth of being.

"I don't take the periodicals. I haven't the time to read them and study the Lesson-Sermon.

Pesticides, phosphates, pollution—how many terms related to the condition of our surroundings have recently entered everyday vocabularies! Although the problems these terms are connected with may have just come to our attention, the spiritual truth ready to handle environmental concerns is familiar to us as Christian Scientists. What we need is to expand our concepts.

A basic requirement of Christian Science healing is a proper blending of the spirit and the letter. In the beginning we may think of the spirit as our new enthusiasm toward the study of Truth, and the letter as the understanding we gain of the application of Truth.