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A special characteristic of Mary Baker Eddy was the universality of her love. To her, love was not a finite, personal thing, to be showered upon some and withheld from others.

A Christian Science lecture for young people—in the park? Yes, said members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Miami, Florida. If that's where the young people congregate, that's where we'll go.

In whatever direction men look they behold evidence of extraordinary development in almost every field of human interest and endeavor. No one need be told that never before in human history has there been so broad, so deep, so rapid an expansion of knowledge, of invention, of discovery, of adaptation, of utilization.

I guess it started with the idea that if we really loved man we would go to people in their different neighborhoods and not just hope they would come to us. It wasn't so much the idea of turning people into Christian Scientists but of meeting their needs right where they were and giving them new hope.

Today, when space venturing has made men feel closer to the stars than ever before, a great number of thinkers are finding vast, practical enlightenment in the divine metaphysics that is impelling this intensified probing of the physical universe. Through the action of His law in Christian Science, God, who is infinite Spirit, or Mind, has revealed the purely spiritual nature of the universe and of man as His own infinite image and likeness, or reflection.

What do we come to church to see, Principle or person? Do we come to see a performance, the way the Readers look, move, enunciate? Do we come to see personal preachers? The Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, are our preachers —they are the messenger and the message, preparing, step by step, the way for the Christ, Truth, to unfold in us.

To observe the development of a Christian Science college organization from tiny informal group to full-fledged listing in The Christian Science Journal is to understand more clearly than ever before the unfoldment of spiritual ideas from divine Mind. The progress of a college organization cannot be measured by material accretion, by simple accumulation of members or experience, though these will appear as natural by-products.

Beah Richards, an outstanding actress, has said, "People use the word 'love' all the time with hardly any sense of what it means. It's not a condition, not a circumstance.

Many optical illusions illustrate the fallibility of the material senses. My favorite is the isometric line drawing of a cube, which at first appears to face one direction and then another.

Strength is spiritual. It is the goodness of God made manifest in spiritual and moral stability, a result of Life, Truth, and Love shining through and enlightening thought spiritually.