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A number of years ago I had entered the public practice of Christian Science and was frequently afraid I wasn't going to be able to pay the family bills. We had no savings; one child was in grade school and one was entering junior high; we had a mortgage, food and utility expenses, and several thousand dollars of debt incurred prior to my going into the practice.

So often, as parents, we feel we know what is best for our children to do when they face decisions or challenges in their lives. We want to protect them and shield them from pitfalls.

What an incredible example of progressive living is found in the life of our Master, Christ Jesus. What immense joy and promise he must have brought to those he healed.

How can we help those in distress? How can we improve human welfare? In most cases what is needed is more spiritual love and compassion for others. Our love may take the simplest form, for example, in a sincere hug.

Nothing about the new book was conventional. Though it became the major text for a new Christian denomination, it wasn't a collection of creeds.

During the past several years a number of specific articles, editorials, and statements on the subject of Christian Science and the care of children have been published in the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal . This list, starting from 1982, may serve as a quick reference guide to what has been published.

All of us come across occasions when we are faced with a decision involving what may seem to be two equally plausible alternatives. It is as though we were standing at a fork in the road, with both fingerposts pointing to the same town.

" The giver of all good" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany , p. 15.

There have been references now and then in the news to the bad conditions of roads and bridges in the United States. The consensus is that the physical structure of our country needs to be repaired, strengthened, and made sound.

All the mortal thinking and striving on this earth is based on a finite conception of man's being and destiny. Predominantly, people tend to occupy themselves with things that have a beginning and an end.