There
is a beautiful significance today in the account Amos has given us of the people who were "at ease in Zion" and who lay upon their "beds of ivory" and stretched "themselves upon their couches," having no grief "for the affliction of Joseph".
In
her illuminating article entitled "The Way," found in "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy brings to light true and effective measures by which one is able to combat the fraudulent impositions of materialistic thinking.
Reflection
implies something derived, something having no independent existence, and it is in this meaning that one comes to understand the teaching of Christian Science that man is the reflection of God.
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Two physicians and a heart specialist diagnosed my case as an incurable heart condition, and I was told that I would never be able to live an active, normal life again and that I must resign myself to semi-invalidism.
Twenty-seven years ago I was working as a medical nurse in the United States when I was suddenly stricken with what was termed by five different doctors a malignant disease.
One day when I was scheduled to introduce a luncheon speaker at a gathering of several hundred persons, I awoke with a sore throat and a voice hardly louder than a whisper.
As long as I can remember I have had a great desire to know God, but one year prior to my introduction to Christian Science I prayed earnestly each night for a better understanding of Him and of my relationship to Him.