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Can you imagine your church services being held without any mental walls to separate you from the rest of the people in the community? Can you imagine the influence of hymn singing, the solo, and the reading of the Lesson-Sermon Christian Science Quarterly Lesson-Sermon; going out for all to feel? Further, instead of your branch Church of Christ, Scientist, being thought of as a building located on a specific lot on a specific street, can you see it as representing a spiritual power—the power of Truth— embracing the community? Actually everybody in your town is included in Church. You have a right to see each one as spiritual, the manifestation of Mind, understanding God and His Christ, free of medical theories, sensual attractions, beliefs of life in matter, and conflicting views of many minds.

"Why haven't I been healed?" In anguish the heart cries out for the answer when protracted healing makes it seem as if one may never be well again. Christian Science healing is essentially spiritual regeneration.

Temptation in some form or other enters into the common experience of almost everyone. It is continually knocking at the door of consciousness to get in somehow and find lodgment.

Those of us who are active in branch church work often have to contend with arguments pertaining to the conduct of our church's affairs. Ours may be a new church, or it may be one with many years of service to its community.

When my brother and sister and I were children, there were still cart horses in London. And no traffic lights.

Physical science places the faculty of hearing at the mercy of organic structure, and is convinced that structural disorganization lessens or even destroys one's ability to hear. Christian Science comes with divine authority to correct these falsities by revealing that man's origin and faculties are truly spiritual.

Christian Science is not a hideaway for escaping into. It's a base from which we can cope with the insistent demands of contemporary living.

People say we are living in a revolution, and it is becoming obvious that we are. The violence and alienation of this time, as well as the often fumbling efforts for freedom and justice, make a strong demand on any thoughtful member of society to collect his resources to do what he can.

Jesus' period of obscurity in Nazareth had now come to an end, and he was ready to undertake his public ministry and gather around him those who would become his disciples. They would be the ones specially privileged to be with him in his daily work of preaching, teaching, and healing.

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love—be it song, sermon, or Science— blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty.