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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," Matt. 5:48.

What would be your reply if you were asked the question "What are you doing about aging?" Since it seems an inevitable process, your reply might very well be "What can I do?" or "Do I have a choice?" A lot of thought is being given to the subject of gerontology and geriatrics, the study of the phenomena of aging. There are many different theories put forward in the attempt to explain the causes of aging, and many good humanitarians are spending their time and effort to help humanity cope with what appears to them to be an inevitable process with all its problems and restrictions.

Several years ago, an irritating skin condition appeared on my body. As a student of Christian Science, I wanted to follow the path to healing based on prayer that seeks and strives to understand more about God, spiritual man (my own real identity), and the divine laws relating to the perfection of God and man.

Probably, at one time or another, most people have felt trapped in a time-bound existence, traveling involuntarily toward an enigmatic future or perhaps toward no future at all. Time can seem an endless invisible ribbon stretching from the past, through the present, and on into the future: but is it really? We are so accustomed to a twenty-four-hour day dictated by planet earth's turning on its axis and to a year set by its orbit round the sun that we seldom challenge the assumptions behind our measurement of time.

The book of Nehemiah opens with his hearing, from his brother Hanani, the shattering news about Jerusalem, that its protective walls had been ruined and its gates burned. For several days Nehemiah wept and fasted, but he also prayed.

The Apostle Paul's statement about spiritual love, "Charity never faileth," I Cor. 13:8.

The twentieth century has brought technical advancement that could hardly have been imagined at its beginning. Only a few decades separated the first solo flight across the Atlantic in the 1920s from a landing on the moon.

No matter how black the night, when it comes time for sunrise there is dawn. Even a moonless sky over a desolate wilderness will yield to the appearing of the daystar.

Whether at a shopping mall, on a college campus, or in the foyer of a church, a bulletin board is a great place for people to share information. You can learn a lot about an active community from reading local bulletin boards.

Learning to pray for our branch church—excerpts from a mother's letter [We thought this letter said a lot about branch churches. About how they support healing and how important our individual prayer is.