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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

THE WEATHER IS UNDER DIVINE CONTROL

The weather is of considerable interest and importance to most people. The farmer is guided by it in harvesting and shearing; the market gardener and the ice-cream vendor, the yachtsman and the tennis player, all watch its vagaries closely; the holiday maker and the industrial worker carefully scan the weather map.

PRESENCE

The only presence is that of the infinite, the eternal God, who is omnipresence. Since God is infinite good, this means that good is infinitely abundant; the presence of all that is grand, beautiful, permanent, and true.

"HIS HEART IS FIXED"

A STATEMENT from the Methodist Review included in a report of the Clerk, found on page 48 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," challenged the thought of one student of Christian Science. It reads: "'Mrs.

"WHO DID HINDER YOU?"

SOME years ago some friends, students of Christian Science, were discussing our Wednesday evening meetings and the difficulties of giving a testimony. They admitted that the Church Manual stressed the importance of giving testimonies, and they wanted to be obedient but found it very hard to be so.

SPIRITUAL KNOWING VERSUS HUMAN PLANNING

IN the midst of vast postwar planning, statesmen and businessmen alike are asking, "Which way shall we follow?" The businessman, concerned with the survival of enterprise and future progress, earnestly seeks a way which will enable him to produce marketable products, the sale of which will ultimate in satisfactory earnings for both employer and employee. The statesman is in search of the way that will ensure an impartial and everlasting peace with an abundance of opportunities for all nations and peoples to achieve self-sufficiency.

"LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR"

ONE evening, while visiting in the country, I noticed someone walking along a dark road with a flashlight. It seemed as though the darkness parted for the individual with the light to pass through, and then it closed in behind him again.

PATTERN FOR PEACE

"After this is accomplished the brave new world begins. "— Kipling.

THE "RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE"

THE statesmen of the world are searching for means whereby to cure the misery of the nations. They are experimenting with civic theories, hoping for satisfactory results from untested programs.

GOD—ASSURED PROGRESS

To face one's present experience confident of God's loving care and control, and to regard the future in terms of orderly, safe, and fruitful living is the right of everyone. Christian Science, as practical for a child as for an adult, shows the way to gain this attitude.

ONE SIDE TO EXISTENCE

It was Christ Jesus' great desire that men should know the overflowing fullness of divine Love in order that they might enjoy the plenteousness of Life. He said ( John 10:10 ), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.