In
a world stirred by scientific wonders, each surpassing the other in prospective power to bless or to harm, there is a deeply troubled consciousness that is groping for direction.
In
this age, in which the tendency is toward mass communicating and thinking, few things are more needed than the understanding of the distinctness and persistence of identity.
"The
struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak, resting instead of wearying one," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
The
scribes and the Pharisees once came to Jesus accusing his disciples of breaking the tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they partook of food.
An
"outlaw" has been defined as "a lawless person, or a fugitive from the law; a person roving and committing acts of violence," and also as" a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
One
of the Christian Scientist's important duties and privileges in the world today is to remain calm and undisturbed in the presence of the confusing testimony of the material senses.