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THE Latin word for the verb "to educate" is educare, related to the verb educere, to lead or draw out. True education, then, brings out and develops an understanding of the real and the good.

THE relationship of parent and child is generally considered to be the one which expresses the highest sense of human love. It calls for the cultivation of many splendid qualities on both sides.

CHRIST JESUS said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " In this truth which Christian Science reveals is found the way of complete freedom from all that seems to hold mankind in bondage.

THE continued growth of the Christian Science movement in all parts of the world, and the undeniable proofs of its healing power in the destruction of all manner of sin and disease, are rapidly dispelling the doubt, prejudice, and criticism which attended its earlier reception. At the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, held in Washington a few years ago, a report from a joint commission of bishops and deputies, appointed to make a study of spiritual healing, was read.

THE natural tendency of most human beings is to desire reformed lives and bettered circumstances, wherever the need for such may be apparent, whether in one's own or in another's experience. Throughout time, untiring effort has been expended in the endeavor to reform and redeem mankind, and some success has rewarded this honest effort.

THROUGH the understanding and utilization of the ever-present power of Life, God, the master Christian, Jesus of Nazareth, burst the bonds of belief termed death, and presented himself to his disciples, including the doubting Thomas, as the same loving Way-shower and friend they had known and trusted before the crucifixion. Jesus then gave them loving counsel and instruction relative to their future activities.

FOR centuries philosophers, savants, and economists have had much to say about the equality of supply and demand, and many theories have been offered as solutions for the glaring disparity between supply and demand in human experience. The present period is no exception.

And every morning seems to say There's something happy on the way And God sends love to you. — Van Dyke What joyous expectancy of good is ours when we can awaken each morning with the glorious assurance of "something happy on the way"! Now what has one to do to be joyously expectant of good, and thereby assured of righteousness, health, peace, longevity, and success? The task is not an arduous one.

THE present revolutionary period in human affairs probably has had no historic precedent. Many changes of major importance have taken place in the world even within living memory.

THE teaching of Christian Science reveals to its student the truth to be found in the Scriptures concerning God and His man and His universe, the truth about Christianity and its healing power. What, then, he is to do with his understanding of the truth as he receives it, how he is to hold himself increasingly receptive to its gracious appearing and its healing results, become the chief concern of every earnest Christian Scientist.