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Sensitive readers of the Old Testament may be disturbed by the long descriptions of the wars waged in the land of Canaan and the brutality displayed by the Israelites against their adversaries. "How could God ever command this?" the earnest thinker asks.

Home is not really a comfortable apartment, a shack, a room in a ghetto, a mansion, or a few feet of space on the sidewalk. It isn't a material structure or place or environment at all, nor is it made up of personal relationships.

In the Bible story of Abraham and Isaac, Abraham lays his own son on an altar as a human sacrifice. See Gen.

Have you been praying for a healing? Take courage. "Why?" we may ask, if healing seems delayed.

There is great concern today about the evil influences besetting humanity. Some evils are so cloaked in clever rhetoric that it takes special skill even to identify them and separate convincingly what is corrosive to society from what is beneficial.

When faced with a problem, what do we do? Mentally climb walls? Try to forget or ignore the situation? Weigh the outward evidence as to the extent of the difficulty or our ability to cope with it? Or do we quickly find the answers to these two questions? 1. What do I start with? 2.

Vandalism, the community, and the spiritual power of Church Since a Christian Science branch church expresses the thought of its members, each individual must be on guard that no intrusion of his own thought take place. By affirming man's unity with God, with divine Principle, members are able to spiritually defend themselves and exercise alertness in every church activity.

It is said that neutrino beams are capable of going through the center of the earth, through what was long thought to be impenetrably dense matter. Is it too soon to talk about penetrating that densest of all human beliefs, death? We human beings—most of us, anyway—sometimes feel inadequate even to maintain finite life.

Surely no one would choose to be brainwashed if he or she knew what was happening. Yet many unsuspecting people have fallen prey to groups using mental manipulation to gain control over them.

The robin's song was loud and clear as the sunlight poured into my bedroom early one Sunday morning. As I lay relaxing in the beauty of the new day, I suddenly remembered, with some foreboding, that I was to substitute again in Sunday School for a class of nine- and ten-year-old girls.