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A HALFHEARTED prayer will never take us farther than halfway into the consciousness of God's benevolent, healing presence. If we would arrive at the very throne of God, if, in other words, we would reach the spiritual altitude where divine Love is truly enthroned as supreme in our affections, our prayers must be wholehearted.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy gave to the world the revelation that God is the Mind of man and the universe and that this Mind is supreme over matter, a tremendous force of enlightened understanding was liberated into world thought.

" WHEN men are cast down," said Eliphaz in the book of Job ( 22: 29 ), "then thou shalt say, There is lifting up. " Thus Christian Science speaks to the lonely and depressed heart.

IT is natural and right to want to be successful. But what constitutes success? Almost from childhood mortal thought would educate men to apply the accepted human yardsticks to success—money, position, popularity, power, influence, an abundance of material blessings.

" EVERYONE has a right to enjoy life and to be free from sin, sickness, poverty, and strife. Such freedom is attainable only through regeneration.

" GLORIFY God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" ( I Cor. 6:20 ).

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that God is Spirit and that man, His image and likeness, is spiritual. Reflecting God, man must be Godlike.

TO inject new life and lasting vigor into an economy and to bring true health and fitness to mind and body—subjects which have been much under discussion of late—men must have an understanding of the spiritual nature of man and his relationship to God. Mrs.

" REMEMBER the sabbath day, to keep it holy" ( Ex. 20:8 ).

UNDERLYING and pervading all true greatness and goodness is the virtue of moral courage, for moral courage is mankind's response to God's direction, and the listening post of conscience is its launching pad. The writer feels that the Biblical idiom ( I Pet.