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Throughout the world there is the call for healing. As Moses cried out to God when his sister Miriam was leprous ( Num.

" Christian Science gives a fearless wing and firm foundation," writes our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 213 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " That this is true in regard to airplane traveling has been proved by many students of Christian Science even under the exceptionally hazardous conditions of combat flying.

Christ Jesus presented to the world a perfect example for human behavior. In every way he expressed that perfect balance of character which not only made him the greatest man who ever trod the earth, but also caused his contribution to society to be the most outstanding.

Proper reserve is a quality that is rightly commendable, and those individuals who express it are sometimes held up as models of refinement and decorum. The attention of children is frequently called to this trait with the hope that they will cultivate it in well-mannered conduct and poise.

The student of Christian Science is soon aware that its teachings are for the healing of the nations no less than of the individual sick. He sees that it redefines and greatly simplifies the problem of world government and world peace, and that it also supplies the solution.

" THOU shalt have no other gods before me" ( Ex. 20:3 ).

IT will be noticed that frequently when our Master wished to refresh his thought with new inspiration, he would withdraw from the multitudes, sometimes seeking the solitude of a mountain place. Before he uttered those sayings which have since become known as the Sermon on the Mount, "he went up into a mountain: and when he was set," he taught his disciples.

NOT long ago at a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Christian Science church, a young woman stated that for a time she did not get the inspiration from Christian Science that she previously had. Upon searching her thought to find out what was wrong, she realized that although she had been reading the periodicals faithfully and attending church regularly, she had been studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly only once or twice a week.

SPIRITUAL discernment is the perception of reality, of that which is true about God, man, and the universe. It exists wholly apart from the material senses.

THE evangelist Luke tells us that Jesus on one of his journeys arrived in a certain village, and there was received in the house of Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. Mary sat at his feet and listened to him, while Martha was "cumbered about much serving.