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In 1821, Mark Baker and Abigail Baker were characteristic New Englanders of the better class who lived on their five hundred acre farm along the Merrimac River a few miles south of Concord, New Hampshire. Living with them were his mother and their five children: two girls and three boys.

Amos , whose activity is to be dated about 760 B. C, was a native of Tekoa, in southern Judah.

The world in general seems to be suffering from maladjustment, depression, fear, distrust, uncertainty of the future, and to be accepting these conditions as real. Seeking relief largely through material channels, it finds much of lack, distress, unrest, and various other discordant manifestations needing to be overcome.

It may be said that throughout all history the ideal of the individual has been the attainment of freedom. Whether the human sense of freedom has been able to confer the benefits supposedly attaching to it is questionable; nevertheless, the desire has persisted and will persist, until the deep heart-longing of every individual shall be satisfied through finding his birthright of freedom as a child of God.

It is your meeting! How many of us are conscious that this message is being given to each attendant at the Wednesday meetings when the Reader announces that the meeting is open for "experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science" ( Church Manual, p. 122 )? Herein is the invitation to speak, and the assurance that suitable remarks will be welcomed.

Our present civilization has become known as "the power age. " The knowledge of how to utilize the great forces of heat and electricity has put immense material power in the hands of men.

The beneficent influence of right thinking, awakened through the teachings of Christian Science, is being felt in ever increasing measure throughout the world, and its vital presence is a power for good which can no longer be denied. The only remedy for the world's ills is to be found through the correct answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?" Thus when Mrs.

A Christian Scientist needing to know which of two courses was the right one to take, sought God's guidance, praying for a definite answer. Having been a teacher of mathematics, she recalled that answers to problems are not usually printed in algebraic textbooks, and she remembered why Pupils do not need them.

True teachableness is a beautiful road which leads up a hill; it is a road of never ending discovery and reward; and those who traverse this road find it a joy all the way. There is a distinct need for teachableness concerning spiritual things in order to counteract the inertia of dogma and futile sense-satisfaction.

The establishment of our Lesson-Sermons in the form given in the Christian Science Quarterly was the result of our Leader's prayer and demonstration. A feature of these Sermons is termed "Responsive Reading," prayerful consideration of which brings deep appreciation of what the Lesson-Sermon is and what it does.