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Not long ago, after race riots had broken out in a great metropolitan city, a group of public-spirited citizens banded together and, in the interests of greater racial and religious harmony, planned a "Tolerance Week. " The writer could not help but wish, however, that it had been called "Love Your Neighbor Week.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( pp. 307, 308 ): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?' " What are mortals believing? Is it not too often that which mortal mind would fain have them believe? The earnest student of Christian Science, however, knows better than to do this, for he has learned and proved in some measure that only that which is of God is present or real.

For many years physical scientists have pursued their investigation of atomic structure with a view to "splitting the atom" and unleashing the colossal forces within. The war intensified this research, and now the first results have been obtained and the potentiality of atomic power has been found.

Many of those who accept the sacred revelation of Truth and follow its behests, as given by our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gain comforting release from these words in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 256 ): "Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man.

The practice of Christian Science reveals and demonstrates the omnipotence of good and the consequent impotence of evil. It is apparent that this modus operandi of Christianly scientific practice enriches human experience with countless blessings.

In the first chapter and on the first page of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy mentions three essentials for the "Christianization and health of mankind," namely, "prayer, watching, and working. " The entire sentence reads, "Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind.

A College student was awarded a scholarship large enough to pay the tuition fees for his freshman year. The scholarship had to be renewed each year, and the granting of the renewal depended upon the maintenance of good grades.

Rebuilding is a topic of perhaps more general interest today than ever before in human history. For, as a result of war conditions, homes, towns, even countries, must be built up anew materially and spiritually.

That which set the Jews apart from all other nations and tribes was their worship of the one God. In many ways they did not differ from the followers of Baal and Moloch, or the worshipers of the sun and of gold and silver.

" We know that a desire for holiness is requisite in order to gain holiness; but if we desire holiness above all else, we shall sacrifice everything for it. " These words are from page 11 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.