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Many today feel that women need to be freed from the secondary status traditionally imposed upon them by male dominated societies. Women themselves are not agreed on this issue—at one extreme bitterly resenting what they feel is a degrading image; at the other, clinging to what they see as a specially cherished status.

Imagine an individual who believes that past events over which he had no control—a war, say, or a depression— have ruined his prospects for a happy life. He feels victimized by his past and wishes he could start his life over again.

The eagle doesn't run away from the wind or get pulled apart by it. He rides the wind and soars higher because of it.

One morning recently I made my way to a Christian Science Reading Room to find an article published in an early periodical. In my search I gazed upon a whole bookcase full of bound volumes of The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel.

No one is absolutely sure. His story has been retold by the West German film director Werner Herzog, who, aptly enough, called his film The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser.

Some readers may be so conscious of the limits of their demonstration of Christian Science to date that they would prefer to be called students of Christian Science rather than Christian Scientists. This view reflects a healthy recognition of the great requirements involved in the practice of Christian Science, and it impels us to inquire further about what is needed to really earn the name "Christian Scientist.

Mark records a number of promises Christ Jesus gave concerning his future followers—"signs" that would "follow them that believe. " One of them is, "They shall speak with new tongues.

Our family has been greatly blessed by the study of Christian Science. It has been our sole physician since I was a child.

God is the parent Mind; man and the universe exist in Him. There is no outside to God's allness.

People are learning through Christian Science the absolute truth that man is the likeness of God, Spirit, and has no element of matter in him. The full comprehension and demonstration of this fact is the summit of spiritual understanding, a state of consciousness in which we shall know ourselves to be perfect, with no knowledge of evil, illness, or death.