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In speaking of music, Mary Baker Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, ( p. 11 ), "I want not only quality, quantity, and variation in tone, but the unction of Love.

We hear continually these days about our rights. When nations and their leaders become tyrannical, is it not because they fail to understand the true rights of man? In family relationships the question is often, Who has the right? A correct understanding of the rights which God decrees for His idea, man, brings the necessary peace and adjustment.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "No and Yes" ( p. 17 ): "In Science there is no fallen state of being; for therein is no inverted image of God, no escape from the focal radiation of the infinite.

UNFOLDMENT should be a subject of universal interest, because unfoldment is inherent in all ideas. We see unfoldment illustrated in such fields of activity as illumination, transportation, communication, and in business and social services.

A Much-Loved account of a healing by Christ Jesus is given in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John. The healing occurred by the side of the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem which was frequented by the sick.

In the narrative of Jehoshaphat's reign over the kingdom of Judah, as recorded in II Chronicles, we are told that when Jehoshaphat was informed that a large army had invaded Judah to war against his people, he was afraid. But his thought turned to God.

A Friend once said, "If you keep your attitude toward the world coincident with your altitude of thought, you will have obtained that blessed state called the kingdom of heaven. " The two words "attitude" and "altitude" are most challenging.

Each branch Church of Christ, Scientist, which is supported by members who are active students of Christian Science demonstrating Truth and Love, makes an important contribution to the Cause of Christian Science. Whether the progressive branch church is located in a small community or in a larger center of population, its services and other activities are significant and far-reaching.

The transforming power of Christian Science is best apparent in lives which have come to express happiness and health through its ministrations. The inevitable laws of God, of the one Mind, which is Love, are ever present and immutably good.

Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds. " Mary Baker Eddy considered these words of such importance that she put them on page 1 of the opening chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.