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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the conflict that is shaking the world, the church is being looked to for comfort and support. Already men have found that the spiritual qualities of faith in God and tolerance toward others need to be cultivated in both individual and national relationships.

The tendency of the human mind to try to bolster us with half-truths is too little recognized. How often when a man is discouraged or believes he is failing or is the victim of overwork or some other discordant condition, he glosses it over with some optimistic platitude instead of knowing the dynamic truth that the argument is a lie about his real self, the son of God! He says to himself: "Now, slow down.