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Loneliness is not just a matter of being alone, or even solitary, for many people, either through choice or necessity, spend long periods by themselves without feeling lonely. Loneliness is a great desire for close companionship or for the ability to be able to communicate with others.

"Whereas I was blind, now I see. " John 9:25; This is what the young man said to the skeptics who questioned him after Christ Jesus healed him of blindness.

The baptism of Jesus, with its declaration of his divine sonship (see Mark 1:9—11), served as preparation for his temptation, or testing, in the wilderness. Jesus had, as it were, come definitely out into the open after his long period of seclusion and preparation in Nazareth; and now his understanding of the nature of his mission was to be tested.

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.