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To be “a better transparency for Truth”
One day an urgent call for healing came to the home of Mary Baker Eddy. Mrs. Eddy asked one of her helpers, Emma A. Estes, to go to the man and pray and heal him. Emma’s initial hesitancy dissolved when Mrs. Eddy told her, “You have only to be a transparency for Truth” (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Vol. II, p. 103). Emma obeyed, went to the man and prayed, and the man was healed.
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy explains this concept of transparency in these words: “The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error—in order to become a better transparency for Truth” (p. 295).

March 27, 2023 issue
View IssueEditorial
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To be “a better transparency for Truth”
Thomas Mitchinson
Keeping Watch
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“My best, my ever Friend”
Kathryn Johnson
- Image and Inspiration
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God “chariots” humility
Patricia Kadick
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The restoring power of Love
Jenny Sawyer
Teens
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When I was doubting myself
Logan Cadey
Healings
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Fractures healed after a fall
Peter Miller with contributions from Leslie Miller
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Injured toe restored
Kerstin Schaeffer
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I had all the help I needed
Hannah Schlomann
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No more elbow pain
Connie Crandell
Bible Lens
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Unreality
March 27–April 2, 2023
Letters & Conversations
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Letters & Conversations
Uta Kühnast, Bonnie Wood, Thomas von Cardinal