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Members of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, often find themselves being asked to pray for the church services, the Sunday School, the Reading Room, a lecture, or their committees. A frequent response is, "How can I find the time to pray for all these activities? How can I give a specific, scientific treatment each day to each separate activity of church?"' The first answer might be found in the question, "What is prayer?" Mrs.

An instant. That's all it took to correct that title.

A freshman with a forlorn, bewildered look was found wandering the halls at a large state university. An upperclassman stopped to help.

Programs to restore lives and property, rehabilitation schemes aiming to help drug addicts, convicts, disaster victims, attempts to restore run-down areas in cities, renovation of historic buildings—surrounded by such programs of human readjustment and repair, we may not fully realize the importance of spiritual rehabilitation. Almost two thousand years ago Christ Jesus restored purity to the debased, health to the ill and lame; he gave men a new sense of individual worth.

God is Life, the only real Life. Since God is everywhere, Life is self-existent, eternal.

Many of us, at one time or another, have watched a pinball machine—the metal balls shooting into a system of barriers, then rebounding hit or miss as the points ring up. Recently I felt like a pinball bouncing off barriers and pillars; but I was not scoring points! I had just returned from being on the steering committee of the Christian Science Regional College Organization Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Sometimes, it seems, our day is a constant struggle with evil. But realizing the constant action of angel thoughts from God, we find that our day can be an inspiring meeting with good.

We can declare our independence from fleeting material joys and woes, and instead, fully depend on God, good.

How does God know what we need? And how will our needs be met?

An occult revival is springing up in the United States and Europe. How paradoxical that this highly technical, intellectually advanced age—capable of putting a man on the moon—may also go down in history as a period when the revival of witchcraft and demonology grew to such proportions that some churches felt it necessary to issue procedures for exorcising demons! But this has happened even recently.