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In a class by itself From a branch church in Massachusetts Is the Wednesday evening testimony meeting a second-class meeting for our branch church? This question, surprising as it may seem, was the hard question our church asked of itself. We are a smaller branch church with a very active membership and, as many have said, a comparatively active Wednesday testimony meeting.

Sometimes one encounters confusion in people's minds as to what spiritualization of thought means. They speak of spiritual blood, spiritual heart, spiritual bones—in fact, they may take the whole physique and try to plant it in a spiritual setting, where this same organization would function as on earth, but harmoniously.

In Miscellaneous Writings Mrs. Eddy describes her Church: "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science.

In a radio talk-back session that I listened to recently, there seemed to be conflicting views as to what all people's being created equal actually implied. A young man kept asserting to the panel that he had been born into trouble, was of a minority group, and that the concept of equality was ineffective.

We don't have to take a look at a newspaper to know that the world has need of healing. We need only glance at our own backyards and main streets.

Many of us have had to retract a "never. " Statements such as "My children would never act like that" or "I'll never forgive her" can fall rather rapidly.

Christian Science teaches that there is one Mind, infinite good, and that there is no power apart from this Mind. It also teaches that man, whether spoken of individually or collectively, is the reflection of this Mind.

Evil is not an entity. Mrs.

Christian Science makes clear that the student of this Science is in the business of demonstrating—proving—the power and reality of God through prayer and spiritual regeneration. And it teaches that his goal isn't to live "happily ever after" in matter.

In his brief, useful book Can We Trust the Old Testament? Bible scholar William Neil writes, "The first thing .