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How can we improve morale in this troubled, needy world of ours? What can we do to wash away the lassitude and license, the discontent and discouragement, so common on all sides? We can pray the healing prayer of Christian Science and live in accord with our prayer. And where do we start in this effort to improve morale? Right in our own homes and offices and individual experience.

Slavery has been an ugly part of human history. It has taken many forms.

Who or what is it that sins? Who or what is it that commits crimes? Is it the real man, God's image and likeness? Mrs. Eddy establishes the standard of man's true being where she states in Science and Health, "The standard of perfection was originally God and man.

One of the most recurring themes of our time is conflict. Nearly everywhere we look in society today we are confronted by a sense of division and strife.

A man was suddenly discharged from his job with the comment, "I am sorry, but you do not relate well to your fellow workers. " Astonished at such an appraisal, the man, who was a student of Christian Science, began prayerfully to examine his mental bearing and behavior.

A double-barreled spiritual attack on the complex social problems of New York City was launched last May by New Yorkers who are Christian Scientists. It came in the form of two free public talks on urban environmental problems by Jane O.

In view of the significance of John the Baptist, the average reader of the New Testament shows relatively little knowledge of his work. We may well search the Gospels for a better understanding of this young man, who held a unique position in the unfoldment of the career of Christ Jesus, the Founder of Christianity.

We are living in an age of potentially universal communication. We have the technology by means of which one man's words could be heard by all men, virtually simultaneously.

I know a family of Christian Scientists, now in its sixth generation, whose members have learned to defend their thinking from false theories, suggestions, and worldly allurements, which confront mankind today, with a firm declaration, "I can't be fooled by lame logic!" This is not a mere defensive stand on their part, socially restrictive, but a quick, bold thrust against whatever denies the Christ, the truth of man's unity with Spirit. Being the expression of Spirit, such a stand is the death blow to suggestions of power, intelligence, and substance opposed to God, which would conflict with true welfare and progress.

We hear a great deal about the generation gap, the labor-management gap, the race gap, have and have-not gap. Gaps separate people.