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THE craving for news and the struggle to devise ways and means of satisfying that craving form interesting features in the development of race history. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country," we read in Proverbs; while Isaiah joyfully exclaims, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" In striking contrast to Isaiah's picture of the bringer of good tidings in the eighth century before the Christian era, is the marvelous manner in which the news of today is procured and circulated.

" THE Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand. " These inspired words of Isaiah should encourage all to refuse to be afraid of any manifestation of evil, of anything that cannot be true to the purpose, plan, or will of the infinite God, good.

" THE burden of proof that Christian Science is Science rests on Christian Scientists," writes our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 158 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. " This statement was made in connection with the laying of the corner stone of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Concord, New Hampshire.

THE character of Elijah was one of great moral sublimity and unquestioned faith in God. Some historians claim that he was one of the grandest and most romantic characters in Israel.

IT is related in the Acts of the Apostles that when Peter was cast into prison "prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. " An angel of the Lord delivered him out of prison; and when he came to the home of Mary, who was the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered praying, "they were astonished.

PROGRESS is a law of God, inevitably made manifest through active, loyal, obedient thought. The student knows well the process in Christian Science: dividing between the real and the unreal.

MANY years ago Mary Baker Eddy saw and broadly described the world-wide disturbances even then appearing to result from conflicting forces. The devastating effects of material thinking, apparently assuming alarming proportions today, find a perfect remedy in the religion of Christian Science, set forth in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

THE Bible contains many promises of good "to him that overcometh. " While these promises are definite, positive, and available for all, they are also conditional.

SO many, so rapid, and so radical are the changes taking place in the thinking and living of mankind today that one need not wonder at the state of confusion and bewilderment in which the nations of the world find themselves. The present has been called a period of adjustment, and we are constantly being told that our living must be adjusted to changing conditions.

WHILE the character of Ezekiel's ministry does not differ essentially from that of his predecessors, it presents some exceptional features of a very instructive kind. The mere fact of his being an exile accounts for much that is peculiar in his method of working and his conception of his office.