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The city near my former home has an active port. Like other ports, it serves oceangoing freighters, carrying important goods to and from the area.

Thousands of years ago, the biblical Chronicler tells us, King David prayed in the presence of his people, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. " I Chron.

It would almost seem sometimes as if there were a resistance in our own makeup opposing progressive steps. Take getting up in the morning.

Do we ever stop to consider how Christian Science protects us by preventing untoward experiences, including disease? Mrs. Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood.

This time it was different! Instead of just reading through the Bible Lesson, In The Christian Science Quarterly; I was discovering the deep message in it. Not just reading words, but pondering ideas.

Why do so many who are not active Christian Scientists appreciate The Christian Science Monitor? One reason certainly is that the Monitor has such high standards of journalism. But there is a deeper reason.

Sensual life styles, gang brutality, and sexual perversion confront us on the human scene and in the media. What can caring adults do to protect children— their own and others'? Sociologists and educators urge: "Become aware of what's happening.

We are witnessing today the rise of a multitude of nontraditional and often nonmedical means of curing mental and physical ills. Many of these nontraditional methods have, along with traditional medical practice, been grouped together and designated the "healing arts.

A story is told about some boys who found an abandoned baby eagle. One of them decided to take the bird and put it in his barnyard.

Are you going along with the insistent predictions of recession? Are you subscribing to the philosophy that there must be greater unemployment to cure inflation? Regardless of the scope or duration of recessions and the wide belief that they are unavoidable, Christian Science shows us how to stay out of the ranks of those who fearfully await and passively submit to such an event. Even though our voice may seem to be as one "crying in the wilderness," we can reject such predictions and contend against them as confidently as we would against a predicted epidemic of disease.