Here
is a land alight with joyous hope,Making each dawn a glad awakening;For inspiration brightens vale and slope,And every season brings fresh blossoming.
Many
people have had the experience of feeling definitely led to take certain steps, make decisions, or follow some line of thought or action, and it has been proved that obedience to this leading has caused other forward steps to appear or new opportunities to unfold.
In
the Bible we read the inspiring account of Paul's courageous stand when the chief captain, having taken him captive, commanded that Paul be examined by scourging.
At
this time the youth who is designated a teen-ager is getting a great deal of attention from parents, educators, and law-enforcement officers, who honestly wish to help him through this period which is called adolescence.
Churches, societies, and college organizations in the United States and Canada wishing to give lectures during the first two months of the next lecture year, namely July and August, 1956, are requested to inform the Board of Lectureship before May 18.
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In view of the many blessings and demonstrations of God's love which I have received from the study of Christian Science, one of the strangest aspects of this published testimony is that it is my first one.
It is more than twenty-five years since my former testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel, and I should like to express my gratitude for this period of splendid health and joyous unfoldment of the truths of Christian Science.
Christian Science was presented to me more than twenty-four years ago by a student of this Science who worked in the same office with me and who invited me to a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Church of Christ.
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