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Some time ago there was an interesting picture on the cover of a magazine. It was a photograph of the world taken by one of the astronauts during his descent to earth.

The anguish and discontent of millions attest to the bleak meaninglessness of life without purpose. Yet in our age the greatest of all purposes can be realized and can endow with the fullest meaning the life of everyone who embraces it.

Many Americans and visitors from overseas have visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and been inspired by it. The strength of line of the building and the huge statue symbolize the integrity of the man it honors.

Those in the healing practice of Christian Science who have had baby cases sometimes find that when the time comes for delivery, forces seem to work in both directions at once. The result is labor.

It is not surprising that, in times so dazzling with the styles and technology of modern-day electronic wizardry, the world is hearing a lot of talk about the "electronic church. " Radio preachers and television evangelists wonder how to use the fastest, most colorful, most versatile and far-reaching communications techniques in history, to spread the message they feel they have to offer mankind.

Neither birth nor death has any part in real being, according to Christian Science. In absolute truth we neither are born nor do we ever die.

What a stirring statement is that one of Mary Baker Eddy's: "If you fail to succeed in any case, it is because you have not demonstrated the life of Christ, Truth, more in your own life,—because you have not obeyed the rule and proved the Principle of divine Science. "  Science and Health, p.

Medieval history informs us that St. Francis of Assisi was marked with what is known as the stigmata.

She came all the way from Caracas, Venezuela. She was stout, hearty, full of life, and her eyes widened when she saw them.

An unsettling job transfer, a divorce, a rift between friends, a family member's demise—like a giant kaleidoscope, daily living often presents checkered relations. But must we suffer from each new twist in the flux of human existence? Christian Science moors us in the certainty that God is perpetual Love.