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One test of the progress we have made in our understanding of God's omnipresence through the study of Christian Science comes at the moment when our children are ready to leave the shelter of the family home, either literally or in the sense that it is time for them to make their own decisions. Throughout the years when our young people have been in our care, we have done our best to prepare and equip them for this adventure.

Mankind's desire for regeneration and salvation is met with assurance in these words: "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. " Prov.

Sooner or later everyone must learn to stand up for his own true spiritual selfhood and for his ability to make this selfhood manifest in everyday living. He must learn not to be dismayed when adverse circumstances or unhappy situations present themselves but to declare and prove the power of spiritual law to turn aside whatever the thrusts of error may be.

Through the discovery of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy the spiritual idea of Church is unfolded.

There is an ancient fable which carries an important message. It goes something like this: Once upon a time on a cold, windy night a camel looked into the tent of his master and asked if he might be allowed to put his head into the tent to get warm.

After her great discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy faced an unparalleled challenge: to find ways of sharing her revelation with others.

People of humble origin account for most of the nearly 250,000 population of La Granja, an industrial area of the southern part of Santiago, Chile. They are factory workers without much formal education.

"Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized. " Science and Health, p.

Throughout the world today there is a cry for freedom. Rightly viewed, this cry is for the things of Spirit, a reaching outward and upward to one's divine source in order to be liberated from the bonds of materiality.

Jesus' question to the disciples, "Whom say ye that I am?" is asked of Christians today and should have as inspirational an answer as that given by Peter centuries ago, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. " It will then be possible to understand the profundity of Jesus' declaration: "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.