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IN her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 ( p. 9 ) Mary Baker Eddy said, "The twentieth century in the ebb and flow of thought will challenge the thinkers, speakers, and workers to do their best.

ALL , in reality, are talented. Christian Science discloses the fallacy of the common belief that some individuals have special talents while others have none.

EVERYONE desires an adequate supply to meet his needs. The false belief that poverty has any virtue is gradually disappearing as the world's thought becomes more permeated with the understanding that God, the loving Father, imparts all good to His creation.

MANY Bible students, through a literal interpretation of the text, "Give, and it shall be given unto you.

ONE of the many simple yet profound statements made by our Master, as recorded in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, reads, "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. " Willingness to learn is one of the characteristics of a little child, one which Jesus may have had in thought when he made this declaration.

WHEN Malachi reproved the Israelites for their infidelity, their idolatry, and their neglect in keeping the ordinances and the commandments of God, he said: "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. " The exhortation, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house," indicates that the people were withholding in tithes, in offerings, and in obedience, and therefore were not receiving the blessings which God was ready to bestow upon them.

EVERY reasoning human being will admit that the need of the world today is and always has been true enlightenment. The desire to learn springs from this need and will continue until education is purged of materiality.

THE heart hungering for righteousness, or yearning for surcease from earthly ills, seeks closer communion with the loving Father through prayer. Of primary importance to every individual is his assured power to approach God with faith unshaken in his ability to pray aright.

ON page 307 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader writes, "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. " The deep significance of this statement may not at first be clear to the beginner in the study of Christian Science, because he has not as yet learned the value of spiritual ideas, or discerned how they can affect his human experience.

THE building and dedication of a church edifice by a branch of The Mother Church marks the end of one stage of activity in the Christian Science movement in the community and the beginning of another. From a small band of earnest worshipers, perhaps gathering first in the home of one of their number, the organization has grown through accessions of those enlightened and healed, and thence has progressed to rented halls or remodeled residence, and now to a goodly structure of its own, designed to symbolize in location, beauty, and fitness the Christian Science ideal of loving service to God and man.