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The Need for Form in Our Lives
Traditional forms are being challenged on every side. In society's manners and morals, as well as in music and art, the accepted norms and forms are being attacked, sometimes with intelligent purpose but often with an aimless destructive bent. Are we in the position of being reactionaries, defending the old modes, or are we bound to find new ways to do things, new forms of expression? Can we stand still in an age of such momentous movement?
The Christian Scientist should never be behind the times. He should always be seeking new ideas and new ways of expressing them. Such an attitude does not prevent him from reflecting law and stability or from enjoying the classics and the masters in art and music. But it does require him to prove that God is cause and is currently functioning as cause and that creation is going on ceaselessly. Mrs. Eddy tells us in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, "Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source." Science and Health, p. 507;

July 5, 1969 issue
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Spiritual Discernment
DONALDA VON POELLNITZ
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"In quietness and in confidence"
HOWARD WESLEY ELKINS
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Stature or Status Symbols?
MARY RETTA TITUS
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"Take up thy bed" and Live!
WALTER W. BARKWORTH
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What Enemy?
LORRAINE J. NEALY
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Truth Is Instantaneous
EDGAR F. WRIGHT
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One Shepherd, Twelve Sheep
CYNTHIA PARSONS
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A More Humane World
Helen Wood Bauman
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The Need for Form in Our Lives
William Milford Correll
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Christian Science found me working as a medical secretary in the...
Phyllis H. Stoddard
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Following many weary years of semi-invalidism, I went to Florida...
Jane A. Warren with contributions from H. Russell Warren, Henry C. Knabb, Edith A. Knabb
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One night I awoke with a very painful sore throat, so painful...
Wilfrid Hinde with contributions from Grace Hamrick McGowan
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As the result of a visit of a kind woman who was a Christian Scientist...
Betty A. Thirlwell with contributions from E. C. Thirlwell
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RADIO PROGRAM NO. 378 - The Love That Makes Free
Robert McKinnon with contributions from Harvey Wood