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There is a fable that a small spider was accidentally shut in the back of a watch. Its position appeared hopeless.

Hanging on a wall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is the large canvas by Paul Gauguin with the long title, "D'où venons nous? Que sommes nous? Où allonsnous?" (Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?) It shows groups of islanders Gauguin painted in Tahiti. They are in different poses indicating contemplation, wonderment, resignation.

Revelation implies the unveiling of something hitherto unknown, especially something that can become apparent only through the impelling power of God. Whatever is of divinity starts with divinity and not with human beings.

Five held last November-December,seven scheduled February-April Several have been held. Some are in process.

To rightly appraise the Christian Science sanatoriums accredited by the Department of Care of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, we need a right understanding of their function. Seeing these sanatoriums merely as places where Christian Scientists go to be treated for the ills of the flesh by mental, or drug-less, methods, rather than by medical methods, is not the correct view of them.

A young woman confided to me that shortly after marrying she learned her husband had a severe sexual identity problem. She was newly oriented in Christian Science but prayed earnestly to know what she should do.

"When am I ready to join The Mother Church?" This question may be asked at any age, but when our twelve-year-old son asked it, somehow I felt he was too young to appreciate the responsibilities involved, and I said so. Immediately he came back with, "What responsibilities?" I replied, "A Mother Church member has to pray for his Church, pay a yearly per capita tax out of his own earnings, and understand that smoking and drinking are not in accordance with the teachings of Christian Science.

When speaking of the trials friends and acquaintances have experienced, we often exclaim, "He's been through so much!" or "After all she's been through!" Frequently we may think or speak this way of ourselves. No matter how compassionately such thoughts may be intended, don't they lead to holding on to error, or discord? In the truth of being, evil has no weight of evidence to be believed or recalled.

For several days before a young mother was to serve in the Children's Room in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, her little son was quite ill. The suggestion came to ask to be relieved of her duties.

What we know about ourselves is evident in our actions and in the interest or dullness, excellence or mediocrity, of our lives. As Christian Scientists, how well we know ourselves is made clear by how well we heal.