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About the year 55 A. D.

One Sunday while discussing membership in The Mother Church and its branches with a teen-age Sunday School class, I asked, "If you knew a lot about playing football and had great athletic ability, what would be the most effective thing you could do to help your hometown team win?" Instantly a six-footer in the class replied, "Join the team!" "All right," I pursued. "You join the team—get a snappy new uniform—looks great! But will that win games? What else must you do to be of real value on the team?" The answer came in one word, "Practice!" What if the "team" we are talking about is the Church of Christ, Scientist, and "practice" is learning how to pray in order to heal? The world's need for healing grows greater every hour, and Christian Science, bringing mankind the practical power of the Christ, Truth, is adequate to save and heal.

People are making progress. This is true regardless of what the noisy and destructive world of Goliath—physical sense—claims it will do.

Are you concerned about taking off or putting on weight? This subject is often an obsession with many people. Answers on how to attain perfection in the physical form are shouted at us from all directions.

The study and practice of Christian Science should progressively bring one a lively sense of well-being. Mrs.

"Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. " Rev.

Have you ever asked, "Is class instruction for me? Do I need it to understand Christian Science fully? Can't I become just as spiritually-minded through my own individual growth or understanding? Can't my own study result in ability to heal?" Many have proved the healing power of Truth to a remarkable degree through their own work, as the final chapter of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy attests. But those who have class instruction find it an inspiring, enlightening, and strengthening factor in their study and practice of Christian Science.

Sharing church in a big city It's already the biggest Christian Science church in its state. But it doesn't intend to stop there.

Man's only responsibility is to please God, to do His will. When we operate from this basic premise, we find that we have dominion over our human problems.

I remember that, as a young boy, when I attended a Church of Christ, Scientist, with my mother, I always felt good afterward. Later, as a young adult, when I was going through some difficult times, one of the things that prompted me to take up the study of Christian Science was that I recalled how much better things had been after I heard the Lesson-Sermon Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons; read at church on Sunday mornings.