Articles

Sunday School teachers faced with the challenge of engaging the migratory attention of restless children have sometimes resorted to conventional teaching aids to help arouse student interest. Unfortunately, one common result is that the aids themselves can become the center of attention rather than the truth they were meant to bring out.

Christian churches throughout the world have a common desire to follow the teachings of Christ Jesus. The Church of Christ, Scientist, founded by Mrs.

In choosing Archibald McLellan as Editor of her periodicals in 1902, Mrs. Eddy selected someone she had never met.

" I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree," says the poet. He proceeds to describe an idyllic island in a lake to which he returns periodically to regain his peace of mind: And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

Certain "facts" of human nature tend to sap one's sense of well-being, adventure, and joy. A main culprit is anxiety, especially, perhaps, over money.

When I was a child, my heart was always deeply touched by the Hans Christian Andersen story entitled "The Ugly Duckling. " Even today this story moves me because it is so symbolic of much of human experience.

Imagine yourself for a moment in the Original Mother Church at the Sunday service on May 26, 1895. Midway during the service, Mary Baker Eddy unexpectedly enters at the rear entrance of the auditorium.

I was expecting a baby! And the Christian Science practitioner I'd called was as delighted with the news as my husband and I were. But as she and I prayed together, I began to realize that while there was something fascinating and delightful developing within me, to view it spiritually was to realize that there was absolutely nothing physical or materially structural about God's creation.

Centuries ago the Psalmist wrote, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?" Many nowadays have similar thoughts when overwhelmed by problems and difficulties. But the Psalmist continued, "Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

When young birds come of age they normally find their wings and leave the nest for good. The parents and fledglings are then free.