In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Purity inside: cleanness outside

Cleaning up its environment may cost the United States more than six hundred forty-five billion dollars within the next decade.

OF INTEREST

Professor Harvey CoxHarvard Divinity Schoolin The American BaptistValley Forge, Pennsylvania

The demand for sacrifice

The Bible is full of references to God's demand for sacrifice.

Always safe

During the night I kept thinking about Paul's journey.
How could something that happened almost two thousand years ago in a country and culture far removed from our own have relevance for you and me today?

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

In The Observer-News-Enterprise Newton North Carolina

When nighttime's here

My room is dark; nobody's here.
The fiftieth anniversary of the American stock market crash of 1929 is being given much attention by the media.

Prayer can solve world problems

Problems between nations often stem from a history of injustice and retaliation.

A job offer

Assume you have a good job.

Striving yet yielding

God is forever at hand, upholding us, assuring us of His unfailing goodness.

Friends

Sometimes young people who want to be moral feel isolated from their peers.