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We are all practicing Christian Science to the extent that we put its teachings into practice in our daily affairs, in our homes, our businesses, our churches, and in all our contacts with our fellow men. While the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has wisely provided certain qualifications and requirements for those who, as registered practitioners of Christian Science, make their services publicly available, yet she has also clearly indicated that she expects everyone to be able to understand and to utilize this Science which she applied so successfully in solving all kinds of human problems.

JOHN WYCLIFFE , who lived in the fourteenth century, was a native of Richmond in Yorkshire; and he proceeded from there to Oxford, where he received his education, becoming in due course master of Balliol College. It was not long, however, before he resigned from this position, and turned his attention more particularly to writing and preaching.

ALTHOUGH many deny it, an underlying sense of brotherhood is usually to be found, in some measure at least, between all individuals and in all communities. Persons who have professed dislike for one another, under circumstances in which friction and disagreement have appeared dominant, will in a time of stress and urgent need be found ready to help one another; and not alone to give a helping hand, but to share their substance.

MANY centuries ago, at the hands of an angry people, Stephen, "a man full of faith," met a violent death. His ardent and outspoken stand for Christianity differed from their stand for an established ritual of worship, and his reproof aroused their antagonism.

THE success of Christian Science practice depends on knowing that God rules omnipotently and supremely, since He is All. No Christian entertains any doubt about God's supremacy in heaven, and many turn to Him with more or less assurance for guidance regarding earthly conditions and occurrences.

THE questions ever recurring to human consciousness, What is God? What is man? What is man's destiny? indicate that men vaguely perceive true individuality to be something other than that which is expressed through the physical senses. Down through the ages this has occasioned, in individual instances, a sincere and earnest quest for a satisfying answer to these fundamental questions, an answer that could be substantiated through proof.

A WORLD crying out for happiness! So universal is the desire for happiness that, look where we may, everyone seems to be pursuing it. Recognizing the inalienable right of every individual to seek and obtain happiness, and seeing the grief, deprivation, and misery so often apparent in the world, one must conclude that many do not know what real happiness is, and therefore do not look for it in the right direction.

THERE is much talk about the need of physical exercise, in order to keep fit, or to improve one's health, or to increase one's strength. Athletics form an important part of the curriculum of schools and colleges these days, and wholesome exercise is natural and desirable.

MARY BAKER EDDY , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the unqualified statement ( Science and Health, p. 283 ) that "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action.

" GLORY to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. " This song, which the angels sang many centuries ago to the shepherds, is echoing in the hearts of all sincere Christian Scientists.