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To strengthen the healing thrust of our movement, thus improving our ability to respond to the needs of mankind by spiritual means. —the Healing Goal of The Mother Church Heavy rains were threatening portions of a Michigan community that had just dried out from spring floods.

Raised in Christian Science, I found early that prayer brings effective solutions to many different problems. But when it came to studying this Science, I had many excuses.

Yes, we can make it. We can because we have a reason to be there—a reason based on divine Principle.

It takes thought to make a plan, power and intelligence to carry it out. Since God, Love, is the only Mind, Love's design is the only plan.

There is great challenge in preparing pupils for the time when they will be leaving Sunday School at age twenty. Many thoughts come to the teacher.

The word "discipline" sends a chill through some people. Yet it can be a treasure-key word that unlocks the gate to constructive new ideas and actions that might remain unknown without it.

Throughout history, theories and beliefs have bound and limited mankind; for example, the theory of the flat earth, the stationary earth, and many others. The present age is no exception, as the many conflicting theories about the origin and behavior of mankind prove.

A new field of study, futurology, is emerging. It is an effort to use existing developments to predict the future in an attempt to ease mankind's adjustment to the rapid changes of contemporary society and to foster determination of the future through deliberate, informed choices.

You may feel you are ready to enter the public practice of Christian Science, and desire to do this above all else. You may wish to help mankind find a better way of life, to show people how to have a practical and healing understanding of God, and above all, to free individuals of the ills and discords that seem to beset them.

Luke's Gospel relates a story that is well known to readers of the Bible. It is of utmost importance to them, and especially, perhaps, to students of Christian Science.