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Removing a ‘traffic light’
There’s a story about a town that was so small it only had one traffic light in the entire town. In fact, after some time the people of the town realized they really didn’t have a need for even that single stoplight, so they decided to have it removed. But in the first weeks following its removal, the town experienced its first traffic problems because half of the drivers, out of sheer habit, were still coming to a stop where the traffic light had been, even though it was no longer there.
We recently experienced something similar with respect to a small change in the printing of the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons. For decades upon decades there had been a small notice that served as a kind of traffic signal to help transition between the Responsive Reading and the Lesson-Sermon. It simply read, “The following citations comprise our sermon.”

March 17, 2014 issue
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Letters
Tracy Colerider-Krugh, Joy Hinman, Roberta
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Challenging pornography with purity
Ron Mangelsdorf
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Overcoming differences
Rick Dearborn
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Judge? No thanks, I’d rather bless.
Manuela Meier
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God-governed children
Jodie Swales
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Protected by the ‘panoply of Love’
Name removed by request
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Skip the sideshow
Elizabeth Kellogg
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Matter’s masks stripped away
Madelon Maupin
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Removing a ‘traffic light’
The Board of Trustees, The Christian Science Publishing Society
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One boy’s food fed thousands
Mary Trammell
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Fish and bread
Ryan, Cassie, Sarah
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Grief, bodily growth, and shingles healed
Pat Segars
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Muscle strain relieved
Kim Hedge
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Healing of chronic back pain
Holly Bolon
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Follow the bright white line
The Editors