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Getting on a train that's going somewhere Is there a church anywhere that has too many members—that has grown so much that its members would like to say, "Stop now, we've grown enough"? There probably aren't many that have that challenge! But "How can we grow?" is a fairly common question. The responses are as many and as varied as the churches themselves.

"Come Discover Life," they said in Wellington, New Zealand. "You World Needs You," they told them in Melbourne, Australia.

Christmas is surely meant to awaken in us the greatest genuine joy and gladness. We sometimes work very hard at having a "merry Christmas.

Uganda via Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, U. S.

Humiliating experiences can be wonderful preludes to spiritual growth. Such experiences often force us to seek and find the glory that comes from God, the glory of man as the son of God.

Anticipating her own death after years of illness and suffering, Caroline Bates wanted to give her husband, Edward, a memento of her love. She went to a nearby city to have a portrait made of herself.

" Chaos " has lately become a field of lively scientific study. As a result, some long-held beliefs are turning topsy-turvy.

The exhortation to "magnify the Lord" is familiar to most readers of the Bible because it is found several times in both the Old and New Testaments (e. g.

What a wonderful occasion is Christmas! But how essential that the material celebration shouldn't be allowed to obscure the spiritual message of Christmas and its true meaning. In an article entitled "What Christmas Means to Me," written for The Ladies' Home Journal, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few—or by none—and unutterable except in Christian Science.

"Of good report"—what you're saying about Report For The '90s Response to Christian Science: A Report For The '90s, Looking ahead to the 21st Century has been wonderful—thanks to you! This full-color, new publication has been designed to introduce the scope and interrelationship of our Church's worldwide activities to the public. Here's a sampling of what many of you recently have had to say about A Report For The '90s: "[The Report ] gives a wonderful idea of the scope of our church—our services, publications, and activities.