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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.

We are sometimes assailed by arguments that tell us we may be able to accomplish the good we hope for later on, but right now we haven't enough ability, understanding, or faith to attain our cherished desires. If we listen to these arguments, we procrastinate and postpone.

In the district of Caesarea Philippi toward the end of his earthly career, Jesus sat talking with his disciples. He was yearning to hear from their lips some indication that they had grasped the tremendous significance of his mission and who he was.

Identifying, describing, and trying to define our ideals is a popular pastime. What seems an ideal job, school, mate, vacation, house, to one individual may seem far from ideal to another.

Inspiration brings light everywhere it comes. When inspiration is present, everything springs into life, and everyone is conscious of a lifting up—a transformation from dullness and heaviness to the joy and enthusiasm that are essential elements of all church work.

Sometimes the pressures of life seem overwhelming, whether because of an unhappy relationship, sickness, poverty, no job, or because of too much work. It is tempting to feel that an easing may come by just moving somewhere else or by making small concessions to the materialistic demands of the hour.