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Appreciating one hundred years of spiritual insight and healing In January we began a series in appreciation of the Journal's contribution to the twentieth century. This month we reprint an article and testimonies published in the 1970s, a decade marked, among other things, by changing roles for women and shifting concepts of family life.

As I listened to the television news one summer evening, the announcer reported that the beaches of southern California had been inundated by an unusual number of jellyfish. He cautioned all swimmers and waders to use care when going into the water.

In a world beset with challenges, it is heartening to have the Biblical assurance "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. "   Ps.

"I know that my mission is for all the earth, not alone for my dear devoted followers in Christian Science.

With my junior year in high school finally coming to an end, the question "What are you going to do with your life?" struck me, along with a feeling of fear and uncertainty. Yet I was so grateful for the wounderful lessons I had learned in Christian Science, and for the fact that I could "cast [my] burden upon the Lord"   Ps.

Sitting in my car outside the pharmacy, I wept as I clutched a small bottle filled with Ritalin, a prescription drug for hyperactive children. When our daughter was fourteen months old, we had been referred to a pediatric neurologist, who told us she was "developmentally delayed.

Participation in the singing of hymns is an opportunity for members of church congregations to lift their hearts, minds, and voices in unified expressions of pure joy, prayer, and praise to the God of the Christian gospel—divine Love. And since many hymnbooks include well-loved songs of the spirit that are found in a variety of denominations, their use in services may also provide a bond of fellowship felt by visitors from other Christian churches.

" My generation wonders if this whole human endeavor shouldn't mean more than owning the biggest car on the block. "  David Arnold, "Their Turn," The Boston Globe Magazine, January 2, 2000, p.

June 6, 2000 Dear Fellow Member, Greetings, gratitude, and love to you from The Christian Science Board of Directors and from all who gathered here at The Mother Church for our Annual Meeting. We are writing to you, and to all members worldwide, to share some important information that was given during yesterday's meeting.

To give truly effective spiritual treatment through prayer, treatment that heals, is the concern of many people. How might we do it, and do it better? The most potent treatment doesn't start out assuming that a particular worrying condition is solid reality to be somehow pushed aside, despite a perhaps persistent appearance.