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Is it enough for a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, to provide a Sunday School? To welcome any child to attend? To be ready to teach children the Scriptures and help them learn to heal? In many cases the community's children are not flocking to our Sunday Schools. Is there something more we could and should be doing? In Science and Health Mrs.

A committee of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, was reviewing the biography of a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship whom the church had invited to lecture for their community. A long list of church activities in which the lecturer had taken part was included.

Archaeologists continue even today to search for remains of what may have been the meeting places of the early Christians. It's fascinating to imagine where these first Christians held their services, sometimes secretly because of persecution.

Can a Christian Scientist retire? If by that we mean, can a Christian Scientist after useful and productive years at home, in an office, at a school, or in another job retire from professional life and find living circumstances that leave him or her less encumbered, the answer is clearly yes. But can a Christian Scientist retire as a Christian Scientist? Here the answer must be a decided no.

A sickly and pampered three-year-old was invited by his Christian Scientist neighbors in 1914 to go to Sunday School. His mother was concerned about his behavior and was very surprised that he was allowed to come back to Sunday School after his first visit, as he was usually impossible even for her to deal with.

The rain that Wednesday evening didn't dim my enthusiasm for the opera I was planning to attend. It was an opera I had never seen, though I had heard the music often and loved it.

As we walked to our car one morning after teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School, someone who had attended the church called out to us: "We enjoyed visiting your church. The service was lovely and lively.

A branch church in Wisconsin recently had a lecture preparatory meeting that featured a panel discussion on peace. The lecture itself dealt with this topic.

Do we ever wonder why our intentions don't succeed though we strive to do our best? We may sense that something stands in the way of the demonstration or healing we are striving for. But are we watchful enough to recognize the obstacle, and are we willing to remove it radically? Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, told one of the workers in her household, "All I have ever accomplished has been done by getting Mary out of the way, and letting God be reflected.

Writing of obstetrics as understood in Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy includes this remarkable comment: "The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is clad in white garments.