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In mid-July, the events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States reached their climax on a hot, humid morning in the village of Seneca Falls, New York State. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed an enthusiastic crowd of twenty thousand people on the Mynderse Academy High School playing field, calling on everyone—women, men, and children—to finish the work that those early pioneers had begun.

The first women's rights convention opened July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. To mark this important anniversary, the Christian Science magazines and The Christian Science Monitor are running a number of articles on the status of women, including important spiritual issues that affect the progress of both women and men.

What does it mean to be a real man? or a real woman? I heard this addressed in a one-man play on Broadway, Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman . The narrator took us back to the days of the cave dwellers, deftly drawing connections between modern masculine behavior and the tough guy hunter role of Stone Age males.

These reports, two from former ministers and one from a chaplain in the United States Army, powerfully illustrate Mrs. Eddy's words from Pulpit and Press ( p.

If in times of illness we're used to relying on medical or herbal prescriptions or on various traditional or nontraditional therapies, we may think of prayer as, at best, an adjunct to these approaches. The thought of someone relying exclusively on prayer to address illness may seem in itself like a bad case of "the do-nothings" that requires a cure! Yet prayer rooted in an understanding of God has, independent of other aids , been consistently proved effective in healing disease.

The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, states emphatically, "Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God's government. " Science and Health , p.

In most cases, governments help control crime and provide services that support order and stability. But when governments are tyrannical and corrupt, that's a crime in itself and people suffer.

One morning in 1876 a tall woman .

from the reminiscences of Walter W. Watson , July 17, 1932 In celebrating the centennial year of The Christian Science Publishing Society, the Journal recognizes the many behind-the-scenes sacrifices involved in carrying out its healing mission.

" We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men/Leaning together/Headpiece filled with straw," The Complete Poems and Plays—1909-1950 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1952), p. 56 writes T.