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Many dedicated workers in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are finding the answer to a question concerning the growth and prosperity of our Cause: What must a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School do to overcome the evidence of idleness and apathy in his class? The answer comes in a positive declaration of the truth that mental laziness is not a quality of the all-acting, infinite Mind; therefore it cannot be expressed by man, the idea of Mind. The Sunday School teacher realizes that his mental climate and motive for teaching must express spiritual manhood with such clarity that only the power of good will be manifested in the class.

Christ Jesus was approachable. Crowds thronged him wherever he went.

On July 5, 1897, at Mrs. Eddy's invitation, two thousand five hundred of her followers from all parts of the United States and from other countries gathered on the lawn at Pleasant View, Concord, New Hampshire, to see their Leader and hear her speak.

New educational programs are constantly being developed in the schools to improve the education of our children. Likewise, Sunday Schools are striving to improve their teaching methods.

To ignore evil in the hope that it will go away is not Christian Science. To suppose that it is, is to fall into a snare set by mortal mind, which fosters this widespread misconception in an effort to forestall its own exposure and destruction.

There is in the human mind an attitude that perhaps does most to obstruct the deeper study a Christian Scientist needs to devote to his religion if he is to develop more of its healing potential for himself and society. It is the attitude that one can know a truth even though that truth is not animating his conduct.

"I never think of you as incomplete. To me, you are a complete idea.

While on a motor trip, the writer stopped for gas at a filling station in a rural area. The attendant asked the familiar question, "Shall I check your oil?" When a negative answer was given, he thoughtfully replied, "A fellow should never be in such a hurry that he doesn't check his oil.

Knowledge is growing and expanding today at such a rate that many of us feel thrust toward a new frontier before we have adjusted our sights to the one we came upon yesterday. As rapidly as new facts and inventive processes are discovered, they are put into technical production and become part of our everyday lives.

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," Matt. 6:21; we read in Matthew.