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IT has been said, with perhaps more truth than is generally realized, that more people die for want of love than of starvation, war, and pestilence put together. It may be that education has been instrumental in leading us to think that love is a personal feeling, unrequited or gratified, rather than a spiritual quality to be learned, cultivated, and developed.

PROBABLY everyone who has walked along the seashore at low tide has noticed the small round gray calcareous shells of the barnacles. In many instances they cover the surfaces of large rocks, the piling of wharves, and whatsoever other objects are washed by tidal waters.

" IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. " As John discerned the truth through spiritual sense and gave it to men, so must the true scribe to this age read the inner language of the Bible, revealing its infinite import.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy wrote, in her Preface to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

ONE who leaves a solitary place to become a citizen of a populous community, if he is capable of utilizing the advantages of the community, generally finds his opportunities enlarged. Similarly, one uniting with the great organization of The Mother Church with its branches, an organization formed to preserve intact in its perfectness the revelation of divine Science, which healed and saved him, and to bring this Science to all mankind, finds his mental treasures abundantly multiplied.

THE modern world is coming to realize the importance of thought in relation to daily life. It is coming to concede that real living is based on true thinking, that all right achievement is the result of progressive thought-processes.

TO a practitioner of Christian Science was brought a patient afflicted with a disease which, according to medical science, if curable at all, would require long years of treatment. This case was cured by purely spiritual means in two weeks.

LIVES of outstanding men and women, as recorded in history and biography, are frequently characterized by self-denial. Great religious leaders, statesmen, and philanthropists have often subordinated personal aims and desires to the accomplishment of some worthy purpose or ideal.

ONE of the great changes being wrought through the study of Christian Science is in the human concept of prayer. When the thought of prayer as intercession or supplication is supplemented by the sense of prayer as righteous desire, manifested in goodness, purity, and love, we see that true prayer is expressed not so much in words as in righteous thinking and doing.

"THERE should be no blot on the escutcheon of our Christliness when we offer our gift upon the altar. " So Mrs.