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Patience is widely recognized as a virtue. And so it is if it is active, not merely a passive proclivity.

The Mother Church needs me? Of course it does. It needs each member just as surely as each member needs the Church.

An article on executive ability, published in a widely read business magazine, Nation's Business, December, 1968; came to my desk a while ago. It began with the query "When was the last time you took stock of yourself as an executive?" and continued with a list of fifty questions designed to test one's effectiveness as an executive.

A rocket leaving the launching pad must exert tremendous thrust in order to counteract the downward gravitational pull of the earth. This moment of achievement is called "lift-off.

In a world that appears overrun with imperfect human beings, it may seem ridiculous to declare, as Christian Science is doing today, that man is perfect, sinless. However, this Science does insist that man, the real man, whom God has created in His image, is pure and holy—now and forever.

A few months ago I received a letter from my branch church inviting me to a meeting in the interest of improving the outreach of our church. It was a good letter, and I was enjoying it until I came to the paragraph enumerating our "outreach activities": lectures, Reading Room, Sunday School, Monitor advertising and circulation, literature distribution—but not our church services.

My church is a great joy to me! It is small, like the town I live in, but big with love and a sense of purpose. This church has proved, over the years, its place in our community, and the members are respected and looked up to because they are Christian Scientists! They stand united in one strong body, having a genuine sense of love and appreciation for each other, and the result is healing in the community.

The knowledge of the Deity revealed in Christian Science is at work today in human consciousness demonstrating the healing presence of God for all mankind. His presence understood—the every whereness and omnipotence of good—is dissolving the adamantine errors that seem to oppose our God-given birthright of freedom and completeness.

Christian Science is not just a therapeutic agent. It is a way of life—the way of spiritual understanding—of knowing and acting—based on the revealed truth of God and man and their relationship.

When disappointment creeps in, we can turn to God who supplies us with all that we need and more.