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A twelve-year-old and I were having a talk about Christian Science. He was doing much of the talking.

Have you experienced times when family relationships presented more problems than solutions? Most of us have. There's a lengthy list to deal with—parents, children, husband, wife, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, stepparents, stepchildren—and the list begins all over again with the in-laws.

The conscientious student of Christian Science qualifies himself for the highest and most important of all involvements today. He takes part in forwarding spiritual birth, or the appearing to human consciousness of man's original, sinless, and wholly spiritual entity as the eternal idea of God, infinite Spirit or Mind.

As unlikely as it might seem to some, the abolition of poverty was begun over nineteen centuries ago. A spiritually-minded young man left the carpenter's trade to heal all types of problems.

The Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), a study ordered by the executive branch of the United States Government, graphically conveys the urgency of taking immediate and effective steps to alleviate certain aspects of the pressing and complex problem of racial strife. Of course, the race problem is not new, nor indigenous to the United States.

When I moved to my present locality, I was delighted by the beauty of the luxuriant tropical vegetation in the area. One variety of tree in particular moved me to admiration—a graceful, sweeping coral tree.

When you think of the practice of Christian Science, what comes to your thought? Healings? Regeneration of character? Practitioners listed in The Christian Science Journal ? A great way of life for somebody? Somebody else—but definitely not you? I know what the practice meant to a secretary who knew little of Christian Science. She had this to say when she heard that someone she worked with was going into the practice: "You've got to talk to him and stop him from going through with this religious stuff.

In the story of Jonah, God commanded the prophet to go to Nineveh to preach to that city. Unwilling to do so, Jonah fled in another direction.

Recommendations for accepting invitations At times individual members of The Mother Church receive invitations to give talks pertaining to Christian Science at meetings called in the interest of branch church or college organization activities or to consider the application of Christian Science to the solution of pressing local, national, and world problems. It is in order for a member of The Mother Church to accept an invitation to address any of the following: an inspirational meeting for the membership of a branch or for an informal group of Christian Scientists working toward recognition as a branch, a branch committee or joint committee meeting, a college organization open house or seminar.

John Dryden wrote in the seventeenth century: Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. Aurengzebe,Act IV,Scene 1; Although human beings seem to die, somewhere in each of us is the hope of immortality.