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THERE is, perhaps, no craving of the human heart more insistent than the desire for a faithful, understanding friend, one to whom one may turn in an emergency or in a dark hour, sure of the loving sympathy which will not condemn, but will uplift and sustain. However, because this desire for friendship is so often based on a sense of human personality and a selfish desire to get rather than to give, there are few who do not meet with disillusionment and disappointment.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE demonstrates Truth in human experience by the utilization of spiritual ideas. On page 463 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

CHRIST JESUS declared that mankind must seek first "the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;" adding, that every human need would then be satisfied. Thus the Master brought spiritual capacities and temporal needs into their rightful perspective.

BEFORE the day of newspapers, information and news were carried by letter and word of mouth. Messengers were dispatched on foot or on horseback bearing the news from village to village, and from town to town.

There is truth in the saying that "a man's conscience is the plumb line by which he adjusts his actions. " That moral sense, that sensitiveness to right and wrong called conscience, which if heeded and exercised in human affairs is an uplifting factor, is, however, certain to err if its judgments be based upon the beliefs of the so-called human mind.

In defining the word "meek" a dictionary gives two distinct meanings. One is, "Gentle; kind;.

In his second epistle to the church at Corinth, Paul speaks of the Corinthians as "our epistle .

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE gives encouragement beyond measure. It breaks the limitations of sense, and shows mortals how they may enlarge their abilities and increase their value, for themselves, the friends with whom they come in contact, and the world at large.

To the "natural man" the testimony of material sense seems normal, real, and reliable. From early childhood he is taught to accept the reports of the five material senses, usually without question.

In the days when Christ Jesus preached and healed in the villages of Galilee, he said to those catching the significance of his holy healing, "Follow me. " A few spontaneously offered themselves on the altar of service with such words as, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.