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Answering a world's cry for freedom They came from all directions, trickling in at first a week before the meeting began. Some weary from long train rides.

When we think of issues facing mankind as this century closes and another begins, there is probably none that seems more chronic or discouraging than the needs of the developing nations. Hunger, lack of clean water, the unrelenting burden of debt, the displacement of millions of refugees, and the ravages of disease and war have been incapacitating not only for the victims but often too for those who would try to help.

Extracts from letters of listeners to shortwave broadcasts I am a born-again Christian, but I must not fail to confess that this was my first hearing about Christian Science, founded by Mrs. Eddy.

There was a time in the early history of the Christian Science movement when a number of Mrs. Eddy's followers were clinging to her personally as the source of divine blessings.

Athletics can be a wonderful laboratory through which to learn something of man's nature as the reflection of God. One's performance is affected positively as one's thought is spiritualized and disciplined by Christ, Truth.

Fed by Thy love divine we live, For Love alone is Life ; .

When someone is ill, he or she usually seeks treatment for the purpose of bringing relief or cure. Among the diverse types of therapeutic treatment in our world, spiritual healing, or prayer, presents a radically different view.

I've sometimes wondered what it might have been like to grow up in another age. To head west on a wagon train in conquest of the American wilderness; to sign aboard Columbus's ship and discover the New World; especially to work alongside the early Christians who devoted their lives to spreading Christ Jesus' message of salvation and healing.

The Church of Christ, Scientist On April 12, 1879, a small religious group calling themselves Christian Scientists quietly met in Boston—voting "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master [Christ Jesus], which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" ("Historical Sketch," Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17 ).

As we move toward the next century, everything seems to be speeding up. Computers and electronic networking make it easier for us to get more done in less time.