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Whether we are simply walking down the street for a loaf of bread or hopping from continent to continent, we're all travelers. Coming and going is an aspect of living for almost everyone.

Though I have studied Christian Science all my life, it was only recently that I had ever read through consecutively our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

This question is asked whenever officers, executive board members, or Readers are elected in my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Has this question ever been put to you, too? Were you so surprised that you squirmed and hesitated with the answer? Or maybe right after the first or second ballot, when you heard that several votes had been cast for your name, you preferred to say right away, "Please don't elect me!" In the Bible, the book of Judges tells how an angel was sent to Gideon to inform him that God had chosen him to free the people of Israel from their enemies.

Life is very precious indeed. And how important it is for us to understand the essential nature of existence.

One of the problems in today's society is a feeling of restlessness. Many people feel a hunger for something beyond themselves—for affection, for experience, for what they call life.

In a single sentence, of touching tenderness, in the Manual of The Mother Church , Mrs. Eddy describes the origin of her Church: "In the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest seekers after Truth went into deliberations over forming a church without creeds, to be called the 'Church of Christ, Scientist.

"Reason," Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health , "is the most active human faculty.

Regardless of your occupation, the best contribution you can make is scientifically to establish that all right activity is the practical showing forth of an unfolding spiritual idea. Fundamental to this effort is the recognition that success, in the truest sense of that word, is the result of our growth Spiritward.

A couple of years ago, after receiving a letter in which I had voiced some discouragement, a friend answered with a simple but wonderful statement. "We must," he wrote, "admit what is possible.

A love of Church and a willingness to serve it follow naturally from a growing understanding of God and our relationship to Him. Many are happy to attend church services regularly and to love and learn the great spiritual truths from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs.