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My home is surrounded by some live oak trees, which usually retain their leaves all year. A few years ago, an early freeze caused the leaves to drop off.

While doing some clerical work I telephoned a government official for some necessary information. He was brusque and uncooperative, giving me no hope of obtaining what I needed.

One day when Jesus was traveling through the territory of Herod Antipas—the ruler who had killed John the Baptist—some men came to the Master with a warning about his personal safety. "Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee," they told him.

The key word is giving a lecture All church members think through just how they are going to share a Christian Science lecture with their community, and there are many ways of approaching this. Recently a church member wrote to us about his experience.

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.

Perhaps at no other time of year do so many people's thoughts turn to the Bible—to read of events that fulfill the spiritual hopes of the Old Testament and inaugurate the New. Events we know so well, yet always long to hear about once more.

When you play in public and are that successful for so long, you hear so much from everybody in print and in films and television and restaurants and concert halls that you get this large sense of yourself. And no matter what effect that had on [Artur Rubinstein] personally—and it had a lot—when he was involved in music, whether it was playing or talking about it or listening, this would all completely disappear—just completely.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. Mary Baker Eddy Miscellaneous Writings,p.

Just as the birth of Jesus presented the Christ in a way that humanity could see and identify with, so the physical structure of the church we attend can provide a place for us to learn how divine Love can guide our experience. When our lives actively express this Love, they stand as a beacon in the community for those who seek Christ, Truth.

Should it be surprising to think of the Christian Science movement as still new? As someone once said, "A movement moves. " Articles on the subject of Church and movement will appear regularly in this section.