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" IF I can just get through the first group of songs, the rest will go beautifully," said a singer before a recital. To her surprise, the evening of the concert the first section went perfectly, but in the middle of the very next song she forgot the words and had to start the song over from the beginning.

" LOVE, " Mary Baker Eddy penetratingly remarks in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 250 ), "cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power," and she continues by indicating many quiet and selfless ways in which divine Love may be humanly expressed.

SUNDAY SCHOOL teaching is one of the most important and interesting kinds of church work, requiring constant study and prayer. If lessons seem to be dull and children unruly, let the teacher search his own thinking.

TODAY a mighty challenge comes to test the depth and integrity of our love. The call to forgive, to refuse to attach evil to man, is constantly knocking at the door of consciousness.

" HEAR , O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. " These vital words of the Hebrew Shema, the declaration of Moses, are echoing in our ears today even as they penetrated the consciousness of the children of Israel thirty-five hundred years ago on Mount Nebo.

ONE or more times each year the businessman checks the stock and supplies at his place of business, rearranging the various items with a view to greater orderliness and more definite knowledge of what he has on hand. He places his choice merchandise where it will be seen at an advantage, reduces prices on certain goods for quick disposal, and discards valueless articles that fill needed space.

VERY significant is the way in which Jesus healed the blind man of Bethsaida. The Scripture records that the Master "took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town.

THE Christian Science church is a healing institution. It is the most potent organized instrument for spiritual healing in the world.

A SOURCE of never-ending inspiration and spiritual education is found by the Christian Scientist in the first chapter of Genesis. However familiar it may become, it explores deeply into reality, and the Christian Scientist returns to it repeatedly.

THE writer in the flush of youthful enthusiasm once said, "I would gladly give the next twenty years of my life if I could at once be at that spiritual point of growth which I hope the next twenty years will unfold in me. " But once spoken she knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with her statement beyond the obvious impossibility of skipping over twenty years and the falsity that virtue and grace would necessarily increase with the passage of years.