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"Where were you when it happened?" asks the prosecutor in a court of law; and the establishment of a genuine alibi may set the defendant free. Then how shall the Christian Scientist answer when his freedom is threatened by the sequences of accident or disease? Where was I? In a matter body, a train, automobile, plane, or elsewhere in matter? Such an admission is a great liability.

A recent newspaper column written by a medical doctor referred to an experiment in England in which some overweight women were given reducing drugs and others were given "dummy" pills. "Oddly," the physician reported, "women taking the 'dummy' pills lost weight as rapidly as those taking the real drugs, and some of them lost even faster.

One of the most famous dropouts in history, cited by Christ Jesus in a parable, was the younger son of the father who divided his living between his two sons. Tradition has since called the younger son the prodigal because he forgot his obligations and squandered what he was given.

The Christian Science Reading Room is an institution for modern times. Perhaps no other feature of the Christian Science movement illustrates more clearly the fact that this religion is one that emphasizes not only Sunday observances but constant, daily devotions wherever we may find ourselves.

The master Christian, Christ Jesus, explained the nature of his mission in this way: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. " I John 10:10; This abundant life promised us by Jesus is hardly consonant with the frustration and hypocrisy often associated today with religious experience.

The obligation of Christianity to heal disease, sickness, sin, and suffering had been largely overlooked for centuries when Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, proclaimed to the world that apostolic spiritual healing as practiced by Jesus and his disciples is a constituent part of Christianity itself. She writes in the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures : "The ancient Christians were healers.

As noted in earlier articles in this Continuity series, the first written account of the history of the Hebrew nation was apparently composed in the southern kingdom of Judah, about 850 B. C.

Humanity is struggling to find the answer to this awesome question in a period that may someday be referred to as the era of the great fear. It will also be known as a period of fabulous mechanical inventions, which have brought to the individual greater physical freedom but, paradoxically, also a mesmeric fear of the extinction of the human race.

Mankind are presently being jolted into an awareness of the manifold ways in which they are endangering their environment. The planet Earth, which once seemed so vast and even unconquerable, can no longer be considered immune to human carelessness and mismanagement.

Membership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and in The Mother Church is an integral part of a Christian Scientist's life. It is more than just being a joiner! It is gratitude actively expressed, gratitude for God's goodness, gratitude for His healing power.