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Before you settle down in a chair to read this, we thought we'd better forewarn you that it just might cause you to get up and do something! In fact, you may want to look at this together with fellow Reading Room workers. In any case, you'll need a pad of paper and a pencil.

When Christ Jesus told his disciples, "There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down," Matt. 24:2 it might have been easier for them to envision the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem than the resurrection of their Master after the crushing events of his betrayal and crucifixion.

What can be said of coldness in the church, lack of caring, lack of spiritual affection? Do we rejoice spontaneously over the warmth and love we find in our church body? Or do we have cause for sadness? Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, was outspoken on this subject after addressing a communion service in The Mother Church in 1896.

Today , as in the past, people attending Sunday or Wednesday evening services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, find them to be healing services. This is no accident.

Today mankind still greatly needs to understand the nature of God and to experience the safety, spiritual comfort, and progress that come from this understanding. Christ Jesus' mission to prove the true nature of God and thereby bring healing, peace, and salvation is not intended for a select few but for the whole world.

I was a young wife and mother, a Christian Scientist, and I had no trust in material remedies— or so I thought. My child's kindergarten teacher escorted her to my car to point out a place on her face that the teacher thought was evidence of chicken pox.

The Bible tells us, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. " II Pet.

One of the most vital issues for those of us who are parents is, Have we accepted the commitment to pray for our children? And next in line for me is, How can I do it systematically and joyously, with fresh inspiration? Clear motives Undergirding the commitment to prayer is a clear understanding of why we pray for the children. Perhaps the answers to this question seem obvious, but, in my early days as a parent, the obvious answers didn't inspire me, and too often they induced a sense of urgency about my child.

It had been a lovely spring with fine weather for sowing crops and ample moisture to germinate them. Then followed a hot, dry summer.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25 About eleven years ago, not long before riots swept through Soweto, the black township that has become synonymous with South Africa's racial struggles, my wife and I received a letter from friends in Johannesburg.