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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.

Freedom requires a purpose. It takes on meaning for you and me as we discover its uses.

Never has there been a greater need to find a solution to the tragic conditions facing large numbers of people. And there has never been more goodwill, more desire to come to grips with these problems and to provide means to feed the hungry, cure the sick, alleviate poverty, and bring the opportunity for education to those deprived of such advantages.

The widening disparity between technological progress and the solution of social problems, including its dilemma "why go to the moon while millions go hungry?" is uncovering the need for a more enlightened approach to economic conditions, to business methods and problems. The limitations besetting efforts to meet this need on a material basis show that the basic motivating purpose of every useful and successful activity must be moral and spiritual, a genuine desire to serve rather than acquire.

Social service as the world knows it is big business today. In a number of countries government has become a mammoth social agency in its attempt to meet people's needs.