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MANY people are seeking to find their right place or, to put it another way, their right work—work which not only provides supply for daily human needs but is purposeful, useful, and satisfying. Christian Science teaches that each one of us, regardless of the human circumstances in which he may seem to be involved, has his own right place to fill.

THROUGHOUT the centuries teachers, poets, and writers in general have extolled mother love, but Christian Science defines God as Father-Mother, thus bringing to mankind the true understanding of mother love. The motherly qualities are vital to good Sunday School teaching.

IN Science and Health ( p. 115 ), under the marginal heading "Divine image," Mrs.

HOW many times have you said to yourself when an unusually large task seemed pressing, "I don't know where to begin"? Paul told the Athenians where to begin when he stood in the midst of Mars' Hill and looked about at the confusion of religious beliefs in their city. He saw them "wholly given to idolatry" ( Acts 17:16 ), and he spoke out to them clearly: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

WHEN we think about ourselves, what kind of man do we behold? Is he spiritual, that is, the creation of the divine Mind? Or is he material, that is, a formation of matter? Christian Science teaches us how to distinguish between the two and to acknowledge as our true selfhood the man that God, Mind, made and maintains. The book of Genesis presents two accounts, utterly opposed to each other, of the origin and nature of man.

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.