It
matters not whether one lives in the remotest part of the world or has his abode within a stone's throw of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, each member thereof has a definite responsibility.
If
someone said to you, "I know where there is hidden treasure which can easily be unearthed," would you not, having confirmed the facts, go to great lengths to get that treasure, if you knew that when you found it, it would be rightfully yours?
Young
people graduating from schools and colleges to take their places in a world where fear, confusion, and hatred hold sway, and where war is fiercely raging on many fronts, may be tempted to accept the mesmerism of worldly beliefs and question despairingly: Why were we born at this time?
When
the Christian calendar points to the eleventh of November, what memories are stirred with those who passed through the troublous days of the first World War! The news of the signing of an armistice in 1918 was received with a jubilation bordering on hysteria by war-weary peoples the world over.
A public
service gas and electric company had found it necessary, in order to extend its lines and improve its service, to tear up certain streets and temporarily to divert traffic over a rough and narrow stretch of road.
As a progressive step in the radiocasting of Christian Science programs, beginning Saturday, November 4, 1944, weekly programs, prepared in The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, under the direction of The Christian Science Board of Directors, will be put on the air by approximately sixty-four radio stations throughout the United States.
For
this I strive: more wisdom to attain,The wisdom born of Love and Mind, which makesOne able lovingly to guide; to gainMore tenderness of heart, for this it takesTo comfort them that mourn, that hold as realTheir past mistakes or sigh for other years.
Christian Science has been a wonderful help to me during the past fifteen years, and I should like to relate one or two healings which I have had, in the hope that others may derive similar benefits.
I prayed
that God would teach me how to pray—To open wide my eyes that I might seeThe full intent of what the Master soughtAlone with God in deep humility.
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