Many individuals at one time or another feel frustrated because some problem they are trying to work out through prayer as it is used in Christian Science has not been solved.
The highest concept of human attainment falls so far short of perfection that mankind have generally compromised in their efforts to reach such a goal.
One is lifted above the mist of material sense and begins to behold himself as the son of God when in some measure he overcomes the belief of life in matter and claims for himself spiritual reality.
Describing someone as a rock, or as a mouse, or as a walking dictionary, is using untruths to convey specific impressions which may or may not be true.
Years ago while boarding in rather isolated territory with a family who were not Christian Scientists, I awoke one cold winter night in great distress.
Since I was greatly helped by a testimony in a Sentinel, it is with gratitude to God and Christian Science that I am happy to tell here of a wonderful healing of a growth diagnosed by the medical profession as cancer of the throat.
Officers of branch churches and individuals who have occasion to correspond with The Christian Science Board of Directors, with the Clerk and the Treasurer of The Mother Church, and with the heads of departments of The Mother Church Offices are requested to place their addresses on their letters and to write their signatures plainly.
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