In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

The Gift of Self-control

Hundreds of years ago an inspired man wrote to a young follower, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

DIVE!

Watching the 1976 Olympics on television made me more and more excited about the diving lessons I had signed up for.

They Can't Hurt

One day, as my mother was weeding, she got many mosquito bites.

A Higher View of Community

The situation looked foreboding.
Today groups of individuals representing many diverse social and economic concepts are seeking ways and means of working more harmoniously with each other, and of permanently avoiding disastrous military struggles.

The Missile and the Lamb

Mankind seems to be in the grip of a nuclear arms fever.
In many directions we look today we are confronted with evidence of ungoverned thinking.

The Bugle Call

Healing of sickness in Christian Science is unquestionably important.

Dropping Material Restrictions

The physical senses declare that we are born into a material world—that we live and die in this world governed by habit, chance, heredity, and filled with unhappiness.
A social climate that permits and produces pornography can be purified by the spiritual understanding that man's true nature reflects God's nature and that it does not include a prurient appetite.

Stick to the Facts

Fifth grade was an exciting year for Jim.

What We Most Need

Christ Jesus spoke plainly and directly when, in the Sermon on the Mount, he counseled against thinking anxiously about the human body and material needs.