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At a time when the armies of Syria were at war with those of Israel, the king of Syria made a determined effort to capture Elisha, whose spiritual vision had foiled his best-laid plans. The Syrian forces were sent to surround Dothan.

One of the stiffest challenges parents face is how to keep their children morally upright. No doubt about it, it seems impossible for a parent to police all the avenues of moral temptation of youth in today's world —television, newsstands, schools, neighborhoods, even the unhealed moral weaknesses in the parents' own thought.

How much we need a calm assurance in this troubled time, when so many are confused and frightened by prophecies of destruction! Dissension, distrust, and disturbance seem to be the order of the day. The words of Mrs.

The term "church" is derived from a Greek expression meaning "the Lord's house. " Think of the connotation of those words, "the Lord's house.

In the Old Testament the dominating figure was Moses, but in the New it is Jesus the Christ. He it was who fulfilled Hebrew prophecy of a Messiah or Saviour, and who in founding Christianity, based upon his teachings, inaugurated a new era.

The Church of Christ, Scientist, comprising The Mother Church and all its branches, is girding itself both spiritually and organizationally to carry out more effectively than ever before the task Mrs. Eddy entrusted to it.

Most of us are familiar with Christ Jesus' parable of the talents. A man going on a journey to a far country entrusted his worldly goods to his servants.

Paul, in his letter to the Romans, talks about two laws vying for supremacy in him. He describes the conflict thus: "I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Early one clear summer morning a student of Christian Science studied the weekly Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly on a screened porch overlooking a green lawn. The lesson revealed the heroic work Moses accomplished through listening to God and being completely obedient to Him.

There is much discussion these days about mandatory safety devices for cars. Christian Scientists are learning that far more effective than any safety device is safety thinking.