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The world owes Mrs. Eddy a lasting debt of gratitude for the splendid example she set for all mankind by living a loving life of true helpfulness to her fellow beings, and for her unfailing admission of the claims of good and her positive rejection of the claims of evil.

The importance of humility is seldom realized by the average Christian. Quite frequently there is a tendency to view humility as a virtue which it is neither pleasant to acquire nor profitable to exercise—a tendency due to a mistaken concept of this quality.

Living is a subject that has ever engaged writers, scientists, philosophers, and laymen. Poets sing of it; those who labor exchange experiences about it; martyrs have died for their ideals regarding it; and prophets have prophesied concerning it.

WHEN Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science and stated as one of its teachings, "In Christian Science there is no matter" ( Unity of Good, p. 41 ), this was greeted in general with scorn and derision.

During a visit to a museum of natural history a student of Christian Science became much interested in an exhibit of a square inch of river water which, when viewed through a glass, and magnified many times, displayed a veritable fairyland of beauty. Marvelous forms and shapes expressed symmetry, delicacy, balance, and grace.

There should be found no more responsible body of men and women in the world today than Christian Scientists, members of The Mother Church. An individual's responsibility may be regarded as his responsibility to God's demands.

The author points out the need for exchanging troubled thoughts for divine concepts.

" Mind is God," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 469 ); and she adds, "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite.

Obadiah [is] the author of the fourth book of the Minor Prophets according to the arrangement in the Jewish canon, and the shortest book of the Old Testament. Concerning Obadiah nothing is known; it may even be that the name is a mere symbol, chosen on account of its meaning—"servant of Yahwe.

Obadiah means "Servant of God," and it is not an uncommon name in the Old Testament, though, as this list shows, it is, with the exception of Ahab's steward, a name which belongs to the later literature. But this is all we know about the author of the book.