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We hear a great deal through the news media about crime and violence—crime on the streets, in schools, and even in people's homes. People have been asking such obvious questions as: Where can one go to feel safe? Is there such a place? Meaningful answers don't come easily or without deep thought.

Often it seems as if crime succeeds because evil intent lays its schemes undetected. Aliases, darkness, intimidation, even supposedly legitimate business—these are some of crime's attempted covers.

The Apostle Paul was not a compromising man. When it came to the message and standards of Christ, he didn't retreat.

• A couple searching for a book about healing were referred to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, by an employee in a general-interest Detroit, Michigan, bookstore. They had not heard of Science and Health previously, and upon the employee's recommendation purchased a copy to take home and read.

Last September, one hundred and thirty-one Christian Scientists who serve as Christian Science Committees on Publication in thirty-two countries attended a conference of Committees on Publication in London, England. Here are excerpts from a presentation given at the conference by M.

For every member of The Mother Church— The First Church of Christ, Scientist—no matter what his or her present duties, membership is a sacred role much more than a human responsibility. It is a dynamic commission, not a symbolic post, to which each member is called by God and which each member fulfills most deeply within his or her own consciousness.

One of the most vivid parables Christ Jesus gave us is the story of the "ten virgins," found in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. It centers on a wedding, a time of great joy and festivity in a Palestinian village.

One bright and beautiful Monday morning as I started to make breakfast, this dialogue took place between what I'll call "me" and the "still small voice" of spiritual intuition: Me: "Hey, my throat is painful. Chest feels tight.

The noted American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. " The New York Public Library Book Twentieth-Century American Quotations (New York: Warner Books, 1992), p.

Human thought assumes that everything, be it bad or good, has a cause. It does so as instinctively as the bee seeks nectar or migratory birds fly to a warmer hemisphere in the winter.