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Christians for centuries have found comfort and benediction in the words of St. Paul in his second Epistle to the Thessalonians ( 3:5 ), "The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Is there a solution for the problem of lack of purpose so prevalent in society today? Many persons and organizations are giving serious thought to finding an answer to this question. Anxiety, frustration, futility, and unrest do not promote a happy, successful way of living for the individual, nor do they promote progress for a nation.

Mrs. Eddy's period of residence at Concord, New Hampshire, was marked by numerous instances of her good citizenship.

Have we ever stopped to consider how much thought and time our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, devoted to communing with God, divine Love, that He might show her how to meet the spiritual needs of her fellowmen? Each step she took in the establishment of her Church, its government, the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly , The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, and the periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor , points to the infinite care with which she followed the leadings of God, divine Mind, in presenting to humanity the Christ, Truth, as found in Christian Science.

The teaching of Christian Science that God made man free is a clarion call for us to awaken to the truth of God's presence and power and claim our freedom from the aggressive arguments of material sense. Mrs.

" Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest," was God's message to Joshua (Josh. 1:9).

The fact that through the ages mankind have sought to learn the nature of God and of man indicates the universal urge to find the essence of good. All who believe in God at all will acknowledge that God is good.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p.

A Young Christian Scientist, who had attended the Christian Science Sunday School from childhood and is now a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, not having long passed the Sunday School leaving age of twenty, wrote to me recently. He commented that Christian Science is a "dynamic religion," and that this fact should prove attractive to young people "since they seem to appreciate something that swings.

Much of humanity seems burdened with a false sense of responsibility and the heaviness it induces. But our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, said ( Matt.