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The world's need and The Mother Church's response

["There is a constant demand for deeper insight, broader outreach, straighter thinking, purer selflessness. Neither standpat conservatism nor headlong haste to be 'with it' is a sign of the spiritual understanding that measures the magnitude of Christian Science."]

Revolution and Continuity

From the July 1971 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Through the centuries many a religious congregation has worshiped with its back to the future. Too often it seems easier to venerate a past revelation than face up to a present need.