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The world cries out for peace. Religious thinkers, international organizations, and enlightened governments all talk constantly of it and make sincere moves to help achieve it.

Some two-thirds of mankind appear to live under the full weight of the curse laid on Adam—brute toil until death. Among the remainder are communities living in a state of plenty never before approached.

With her hand on the telephone a Christian Scientist paused. Should she intrude upon her friend's privacy, take up his time, and perhaps disturb his train of thought? The message she had to give was important; so, with diffidence, she proceeded to make the call.

An unnamed Indian politician has been quoted as saying that the two most significant events in the last century as far as Asia is concerned, both relating to war, were Japan's victory over Russia in 1905 and China's current accomplishment in exploding an atomic bomb. The events are considered important because it had not previously been known whether an eastern country could overcome a western country or develop modern military technology equal to the West's.

Universal peace. Can it ever be attained on this planet, in this age? Or is it a state capable of being attained only hereafter in another world? To the truly Christian thinker everywhere there can be no slightest doubt that the goal of universal peace not only is attainable here but that Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace, has clearly charted the way.

How does it feel to be the sole Christian Scientist at your college or university? Those who think they would feel lonely or different will be interested in the story of a student at a Virginia college who is too busy representing her religion on campus to let her uniqueness bother her. With no Christian Science college organization or informal group to stand with her, this young woman has established fine rapport with the college chaplain, partly through her good work in his classes on religion.

As noted in the previous article in this series, the venal and irresponsible acts of Samuel's sons, whom he had appointed as judges, led to a demand that the position of judge be abolished forthwith and be replaced by a monarchical government. One of the historians who writes in the First Book of Samuel represents the Lord as concurring with Samuel in wholeheartedly agreeing with this plan, as we have shown.

God's first recorded command is, "Let there be light. " Gen.

A young girl was once told by a teacher in high school that one's religion is his own thought about God, and church the outward body that comes the closest to expressing one's thought about Him. These definitions stayed with her, and she vainly tried to reconcile the two during many years of orthodox church attendance.

We read in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, "We should forget our bodies in remembering good and the human race.