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Throughout the ages humanity has been engaged in a struggle for freedom from its many yokes of bondage, from fear, sin, disease, want, oppression, and the myriad other evils that fetter it. However, let us consider two vital questions: Does humanity understand the nature of its bondage? Is it expending its efforts in the right direction in order to demonstrate freedom? The answer to these questions must be largely negative.

What would be thought of a hostess who lovingly invited guests to her home, only to ignore them or treat them coolly and with unfriendliness upon their arrival? As branch church members, we need to be careful not to commit this error at our church services, Sunday Schools, lectures, or in our Reading Rooms. Most Christian Science churches advertise in a local paper that all are cordially invited to attend the church services and to visit the Reading Room.

Many years ago, on the shores of the Galilean Sea, Christ Jesus asked Peter, "Lovest thou me more than these?" John 21:15; Jesus asked this question after his resurrection from the grave. At that time it must have seemed that the continuance of his mission of bringing the healing Truth to all mankind depended on a handful of men.

The last one hundred years have been a period of great advancement, an age of accelerated world progress and innovation. Inventions have shortened both the time and distance of communication.

Students of Christian Science who make the effort to assess their thinking regarding various phases of our Cause will be rewarded with a deeper understanding and appreciation of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its branches. This Church is not just another human organization; it is, in fact, the effect in human experience of Mrs.

Religion is being challenged by the age of material development in which we live. Ours is an era of technological development of such scope and magnitude that religious teachings based upon ritual, dogma, and superstition are no longer accepted by a majority of educated people.

In her poem "Feed My Sheep,'" Mrs. Eddy prays: Shepherd, show me how to go O'er the hillside steep, How to gather, how to sow,— How to feed Thy sheep Poems, p.

Every individual carries in thought certain controlling concepts which shape his actions and experience. Because of their dominant role they are in effect "gods," though they may not be concerned with any formal religion.

After the ascension of Jesus the disciples, who had gone with him to Bethany, "returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. " Luke 24:52, 53; Christian Scientists today are experiencing the joy of discipleship in practicing the teachings of their Master.

Economics, as defined by Harold Sloan in A Dictionary of Economics , is "that body of knowledge which treats of the creation and appropriation of goods and services for the satisfaction of human wants. " Spiritually considered, scientific economics treats of the laws of God, operating through self-enforcing Principle, supplying through divine intelligence all good.