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Are they coming back for more? Your Sunday School class, that is. If not, why not? Are new pupils attending? If not, why not? Are your pupils becoming serious metaphysicians? Can they heal themselves and others through prayer? Are they using spiritual resources to find answers to the deep challenges facing them? There is a great deal of talk about dropouts and decreasing Sunday School attendance.

A person is driving through beautiful country on a major highway. He reflects on how safe and pleasurable an experience it can be when posted speed laws and other traffic rules and warnings are obeyed.

Malaise seems to be widespread in the world today. This is a state of unrest, uncertainty, discontent.

Providing food, schooling, clothing, housing, and a loving home atmosphere is essential for the care and raising of a child, but it is just part of the true substance of this trust. The Christian Scientist finds that the greatest challenge lies in demonstrating the purest sense of parental love by providing for spiritual education and growth.

Newcomers to Christian Science church services cannot help but be impressed in some way by the spirituality and deportment of those who conduct these services. It behooves the earnest student of this religion to ask himself, "What can be done to make the office of Reader the blessing it is intended to be, so that both strangers and members will find the services alive with sincerity, inspiration, and healing?" Our Leader, Mrs.

For some of us there is a temptation to think that our way would be brighter, healthier, and more bountiful if —if only we possessed as much ability to trust in God and understand Him as some friend has, if only we could study, pray, and work as diligently and consecratedly as he does. This is a form of slowing our own progress and blocking blessings ever available to all mankind.

The scourge of poverty is seen in all parts of the world. Does a remedy exist? Yes, it does.

When one first reads the Christian Science textbook Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, particularly the chapter entitled "Fruitage," there comes a point when the reader says to himself, "If this Christian system of healing has worked for all these people, it ought to work for me.

Sometimes students of Christian Science wonder how relevant the Manual of The Mother Church is. Occasionally we may hear someone say that the Manual should be subject to change just as the Constitution of the United States is amended to keep up with changing times.

Prophecy is usually thought of as foretelling the future, predicting human events yet to come. But this falls far short of the Christianly scientific definition.