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Hiking through the eastern American wilderness known as Shenandoah National Park, I've enjoyed the vast expanse of deep natural forest with its varied vegetation and animal life. One romantically named hill or hollow after another has its special gift: the immense hemlocks of a small area known as Limberlost; the seven or so waterfalls of White Oak Canyon; the worn, rounded crest of the mountain called Old Rag; the dignity of the Appalachian Trail as it winds its way from Maine to Georgia.

Over recent years there have been a number of articles in the Christian Science periodicals about the need to overcome various forms of sensuality—adultery, homosexuality, fornication. The Bible Lessons In the Christian Science Quarterly.

We were in Christian Science Sunday School, and I was teaching the pre-kindergarten age class. (These little ones don't miss a trick, and they are innocently frank.

Suppose we had been with Moses at Horeb. Climbing with him, with the same inner impulsion, out of the valley full of doubts, up in search of a God he knew must exist but was only learning how to understand.

What is real? Every Christian Scientist confronts this question, for only in dealing with reality can one approach the life and healing ability that Jesus demonstrated two thousand years ago. But what is real? Common usage includes as real those things that are discerned by the material senses.

Time and place do not determine the availability of spiritual truth. Anytime, anywhere, we can benefit from the abundant flow of good that God is pouring out everywhere.

The world has an inexhaustible resource that it has only begun to tap. This resource can supply every need, satisfy every longing, heal every disease.

Do we ever try to use Christian Science merely as a tool for acquiring physical comfort, wealth, or personal success? Is this its real purpose? Or are we seeing the larger goal the Science of Truth holds for mankind? As we seek to grow in our understanding of God and our love for man, it's important to keep a close check on our motives. The above questions are tough, but worth considering.

Communicate? We do it all the time, consciously or unconsciously, vocally or silently. But much more than just words is involved.

In driving we often come across a traffic sign that contains a very special word: yield . Drivers approaching an intersection are instructed by such a sign to give way to the flow of traffic.