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A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST was praying earnestly for divine guidance. She opened at random Mrs.

FAR more than being merely entreaty, prayer in Christian Science educates spiritually the one who prays. Briefly it is a method of establishing in human consciousness the spiritual, or real, facts of God, man, and the universe.

During the wanderings of the Israelites in the Sinaitic Peninsula, the greatest recorded events were Moses' reception of the moral law from God Himself and its promulgation in the form of what the Bible terms "words," although they are more generally known as the Ten Commandments. Even the preliminaries leading up to the giving of the commandments through Moses suggest the deep significance of this event.

On page 246 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "Life is eternal.

We need to be grateful for the many young people who, through the work of faithful Sunday School teachers and loving parents and through their own sincerity, have gained a working knowledge of Christian Science and are using it in their homes, in military service, in business, and in branch church activities. There are those, however, who seem to have similar opportunities but under stress of present-day situations stray from their early training.

The physical, mental, moral, and spiritual health of children is a subject of universal interest. Long before the birth of Jesus there was a saying in Palestine, "The world is only saved by the breath of the school-children.

What is man's place? Is it not found in his oneness with the Father, in his inseparability from Mind, divine Love, the source of all good? Being at one with God, man can exist only in God. To demonstrate this truth is to see around one only the expression of God's spiritual qualities.

Mortal mind always presents its suggestions as reasonable. Sometimes it suggests that a physical diagnosis could bring mental relief if it disclosed a less serious difficulty than one which a sufferer has surmised.

A mother who is a Christian Scientist seemed to have great difficulty getting her children up in the morning. She finally formed the habit of greeting them with this lively challenge: "Wake up, wake up, the world has need of you today!" Although it was spoken in fun, she gradually saw in it a spiritual message.

Human theories have been endeavoring for generations to explain causes and effects in, of, and as matter. However, since the discovery of Christian Science in 1866 by Mrs.