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IN Genesis we read: "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

PARENTS the world over pray for their children; some pray to idols, some to spirits, some to a corporeal god, and others to the one God, infinite Spirit. Parents who are studying Christian Science pray to God as the one divine Mind.

IN the sixth chapter of Judges, an account is given of the selection of Gideon to deliver the children of Israel from the Midianites. When the angel of God first approached him, the reaction of Gideon was to question why all these misfortunes had come to the Israelites.

ONE day, when I was driving in a small town, I found that I needed to replenish the gasoline supply in my car. However, I made a call in the town, and my thought being concerned with the subject of the call, I forgot to stop at a gasoline station.

LITTLE children have a strong sense of justice. A decision by a teacher or parent which seems to them to be unjust often provokes a howl of outraged protest.

WE are sometimes asked, "How is the world treating you?" Using human logic, we may be quick to conclude either that the world is treating us very well or else very badly. Such a question should prod us to reexamine our customary judgments about the world.

IN Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy the definition of "Church" is given on page 583 as: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

" IT depends on how you look at it" is a phrase often heard when two or more people see the same situation in different lights. The individual who wishes to demonstrate the healing effect of scientific prayer finds that the result of his work always depends on how he looks at a problem.

AFTER Jesus had fed the five thousand and walked on the Sea of Tiberias towards Capernaum the people, impressed by his spiritual dominion over commonly accepted material laws, asked him ( John 6:28 ), "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?" And Jesus replied, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. " Mrs.

THE discerning student understands the difference between abstract theories concerning Christian Science and the absolute truths of God and man which constitute its teaching and practice. Sometimes, however, a sense of confusion exists among those who, having seen the dangers of abstractness, are becalmed because they are afraid of being too absolute in their metaphysical reasoning.