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Great encouragement, burdens made light, thought uplifted with hope and promise have been the experience of countless numbers who have taken up the study of Christian Science. Some understanding of the great fact of spiritual reality, attainable only by walking in the pathways of Truth, has been gained.

Recently the writer listened to a round table discussion on postwar plans being broadcast from Great Britain. An arresting statement was made by one of the speakers, an Englishman, who said in part, "It is important that there be friendship and affection between Great Britain and America, but what is more important is that there be understanding between the two nations.

Teaching the Bible to Sunday school pupils, like all Christian Science teaching, has a practical purpose. Its object is to make the Bible the chart of life for them.

Shall humanity accept mere human idealism or turn to the spiritual radicalism which Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated, is a challenge facing us today. When he declared, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink" ( Matt.

The student of the Bible cannot help being impressed with the great love our Master and Way-shower, Christ Jesus, had for children. His whole teaching and his marvelous demonstrations of Truth were for the purpose of revealing the kingdom of heaven on earth, where men appeared to have lost sight of it.

A Christian Scientist who had been helping another to gain a correct solution to a problem said: "Whatever the error—a cut on the finger or the tragedy of war—it is the age-old lie of divisibility. Our work is to know there is no division, because God is one and All.

Nowadays an impressive endeavor is being made to safeguard the liberty of men and nations. In the midst of all these plans, one should be well aware that liberty can be permanently secured and confidently enjoyed only as it derives from the Christian concept of existence, the spiritual understanding of God and man.

It is characteristic of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to begin what she said or wrote with a word of encouragement. This is illustrated by the very first words in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

It may truly be said that the supreme need in the world today, and for most of mankind the greatest desire, is for permanent peace on earth among all nations. This need and desire of the war-weary is in no sense new except that it has a new insistence because of the ever-increasing destructiveness of war.

In the realm of human thinking the search for antidotes for both disease and sin has been long and devious. No sooner has one been found for some specific ill, and its virtues widely advertised, than its failures and sometimes its harmful effects begin to make news.