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Who, inside or outside the Christian Science movement, does not need more spiritual strength to withstand the buffetings of these times? The first essential is a source of power equal to the demand. The second essential is the nullification of what seem to be opposing evil powers.

The word "educate" is derived from the Latin educare , which is related to educere , meaning "to lead out. " The ideal way of instruction is to lead a student out of ignorance into truth.

One afternoon while riding in a train through the beautiful rolling plains of North Dakota, a college student and I began to talk about God, religion, and morals. My new friend said, "The other night on the campus a man gave us a lecture on the subject, 'God is dead!'" He continued: "That fellow was 'way out.

David's name is so closely associated with the book of Psalms that we may well consider his relationship to these familiar and beautiful poems. As printed in the King James Version of the Bible, they appear to be in prose; but many more recent translators set them down in metrical form.

In today's experimental laboratories much has been discovered that is helpful in releasing humanity from archaic methods of work and eliminating menial tasks. However, published excerpts concerning some current experiments being conducted in the field of genetics state that "momentous scientific advances may soon give us godlike powers to tamper with the essential nature of man.

Recently in a news item describing the misconduct and vandalism of a group of so-called juvenile delinquents, a law officer was quoted as saying that such misdemeanors are often caused by boys who are trying to prove their manhood. If every young person attempted to prove his manhood in the way that Christian Science teaches—spiritually, instead of humanly—there would be no juvenile delinquency.

In his metaphysical work for himself or for one who has requested his aid, the student of Christian Science recognizes the perfection, completeness, and harmony of man's spiritual being made in God's likeness. From that basis he denies reality, place, and power to the evil that falsely claims presence and dominion.

The late Dr. Charles P.

The triumph of good is inevitable. Christian Science reiterates and demonstrates the teaching of the Bible that God, Spirit, made all and made it good, and that evil, therefore, is unreal.

These words of Mrs. Eddy occur in a letter to one of her students: "A real scientific Healer is the highest position attainable in this sphere of being.