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Mary Baker Eddy makes this thought-provoking query in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 116 ): "Are we filling the measures of life's music aright, emphasizing its grand strains, swelling the harmony of being with tones whence come glad echoes?" Each one may profitably ask himself this question today when the glad strains of life need to be heard, and can be heard, above earth's discordant sounds.

The thinking of people everywhere must find a new base, must undergo a radical change, if destructive fear is to be abolished and peace abound. This is obvious from the trend of world events.

One Sunday morning a little boy came to be enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School, and when the superintendent asked him how old he was, he replied spontaneously and with childlike directness, "I have no old. " This child was being reared in a family of Christian Scientists and had learned that "man in Science is neither young nor old," as Mrs.

In the chapter entitled "The Great Discovery" in her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," Mrs. Eddy relates that her deep search of the Scriptures enabled her to understand the spiritual significance of Jesus' teachings and his demonstrations over mortal discords and that this led her to discover and found Christian Science.

In this century many people have been awakening to a more divinely scientific understanding of Christ Jesus' mission. The necessity of repeating his words and works through his method alone has become clearer to many Christian worshipers.

A Period of required military service can be a time of highly stimulating and rewarding activity and spiritual progress to the student of Christian Science—time that is far from wasted. When one enters the service, it is important to realize that here as everywhere else one's primary obligation is to listen for and obey the leadings of the Father, divine Mind.

It is generally recognized that the development of an idea is most effective when incorporated into the education of the young. Therefore in order to ensure human progress it is essential that teachers and teaching be of the highest character.

At this period many men and women are looking to psychology and psychiatry for the uncovering of faults of character, which are due possibly to unwise rearing, hereditary tendencies, and unfavorable background, or present environment, which they believe may account for their problems. Some of these individuals, disappointed in their fruitless search, are turning to a more spiritually scientific self-analysis.

An old folk story tells of an eagle that from the time of its birth grew up among a flock of chickens. By the time it was grown the eagle had the habits of a chicken.

Many employers use a system of tests that enables them to rate their applicants and employees according to their aptitudes. These evaluation tests vary greatly, but their main purpose is to determine the degree of ingenuity, sharpness, resourcefulness, stamina, and so on, possessed by the one being tested.