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Long ago a Christian Science practitioner responded in these words to my complaint over having to struggle with a difficulty: "Well, dear, you've enlisted. Now fight !" Over many years I have learned how valid that admonition was.

A fascinating piece of information is the fact that Thomas Edison and his research team conducted fifty thousand experiments over a period of ten years from 1900 to 1909 before he made a successful alkaline battery. Now that's perseverance! And it hints at a deeper lesson—the great difference between simply trying and doing.

A woman who has since become a good friend of mine told me of a time in her life when she faced an extremely difficult trial. One afternoon when she came home from work, she was informed by the woman she had hired to care for her three-month-old baby that he was weak and suffering from severe diarrhea.

When the American occupation forces came to Japan after World War II, a number of the personnel were Christian Scientists. Japan had never had such an influx of Christian Scientists.

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.

There is such great thirsting of the soul today for spiritual things. To some extent, worldwide there is a turning to religious values.

How is writing for the Christian Science periodicals different from other writing? What impels it? What makes it possible? How does it help the reader? How does it change the writer? Not long ago four writers, who contribute regularly to this magazine as well as to the Christian Science Sentinel and the daily religious article in The Christian Science Monitor, discussed what originally launched them in their writing—and what keeps them going if their manuscripts are returned for revision! Cynthia Howland , J. Darrow Kirkpatrick , David C.

One former captive, St. Paul, wrote, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,.

The man was lying on the sidewalk covered by an old winter coat. When I lifted the coat, he lifted his face from a magazine—an issue of Newsweek with a cover story on nuclear war.

Have you been thinking about writing for the Christian Science periodicals? Have you had a healing or spiritual insight you'd love to share with others? Do you have a notebook filled with article ideas or maybe a folder stuffed with rough drafts? Or have you sent in a few articles with little apparent success? If you're new to writing, now is the time to begin. And if you've as yet been unsuccessful, don't give up! Writing for the periodicals is one of the most important avenues of spiritual growth that our Leader, Mrs.