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CHRISTENDOM unites in declaring of God, "Thine is the .

THE feeding of the Israelites in the desert with manna was an occurrence of deep significance. It has made clear to people of every age the fact that God provides all needful things for His people; that whatever the environment, however desolate the outlook may be to material sense, God never forsakes those who trust in Him, but giveth freely of His good gifts to satisfy all human needs.

What made Amos, a country-man of Tekoa, leave his sheep and his fig-mulberries and the solitary places of his home, to intone rhythmic oracles of Jehovah at some crowded pilgrimage-festival of Bethel, a score of miles north, and in another land? It was not his professional calling; he was a layman, not a "cleric. " But the passion of a true prophet burned within him—the passion of social sympathy and keen resentment against social injustice, and the passion of faith in Jehovah as a God demanding the right relation of man to man as the beginning of a right relation to Himself, and a God able to enforce His demand by the events of history.

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.