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Perhaps you would like to come with me on a quick tour of some of the news bureaus that make up the American News Department of the Monitor* —to see some of our correspondents in action, to look over their shoulders, as it were, to see how they approach their writing—and to see some of the results of what they have written. Their knowledge of the true, spiritual nature of God and of man enables them to reflect distinctive qualities in their writing: qualities of honesty, fairness, balance, candor, forthrightness, compassion.

To almost everyone death is a touchy subject. Some people begin to ask themselves many questions when a friend or relative dies.

High on a hill in the central part of France a great church overlooks farmlands, villages, woods, and streams that sweep around it and away to the world beyond. It is the Abbey of Vézelay, built in the twelfth century.

How old are we? The natural reaction is to think of our birthday. But is this our beginning? Was there a time when God had no children? Was man brought forth at a certain stage of history like a manufactured product with built-in obsolescence? Our true beginning is not a point in time.

Every three months a precious package is delivered to my door. As I open it, the bright colored covers of the various editions of The Herald of Christian Science remind me of jewels.

Mankind is again in one of those periods of confusion and uncertainty that students of history are familiar with. Tribal and national conflicts, class and race prejudice, self-interest at the expense of others, immorality, and amorality are rampant.

As the air about us is one undivided whole, so being is undivided. Division, aloneness, separateness—these represent the trickery of human belief, not the truth of being.

Can one be an optimist and a realist at the same time? Can he look at the evils in life and yet judge them to be secondary to the good that life includes? And where do the teachings of Christian Science stand in relation to optimism and realism? Many believe that Christian Science leads one to look on the bright side of things and have greater faith in good than in evil. While this is true, Christian Science is as far from optimism as mere belief is from demonstrable Science.

"Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you. " Science and Health, p.

We sometimes think that our primary needs in life are material—the need for relief from pain, for deliverance from sickness, for food, for a means of transportation, for companionship. But the fact is that unless we look for them in Spirit we may exclude from our lives the very things for which we cry out.