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In recent years organizations have been established to test and categorize the quality of household goods so that their individual merit may be known to the purchaser. This service aims to protect the individual consumer against false standards and dubious commercial practices.

"Occupation: Housewife. " How many times a woman describes her job with that word on some form! But perhaps she feels a little ashamed to go on record with what she may consider an unimportant and uninteresting career.

There are widely held beliefs about the preeminent importance of a human child's development during the formative months in the mother's womb and after birth from age one to three. But students of Christian Science know of a higher law and learn to accept different testimony.

To educate a child is both a joy and a challenge for the parent or Sunday School teacher. A joy to see the individual developing hidden talents, a joy to look beyond the human exterior and see the spiritual fact of man's Godlike nature.

The spiritual facts of being, which exist in Mind, God, are counterfeited by the false beliefs of the carnal, or mortal, mind. One of these beliefs is that the functions and faculties of the body are controlled by nerves, and that disturbances in the nervous system result in diseases of various types.

On the day following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. , a deeply saddened white man opened his copy of The Christian Science Monitor.

When the Easter "invasion" of vacationing college students rolled in over Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last spring, at least one group of local inhabitants were truly delighted to see it come: the Christian Scientists of Greater Fort Lauderdale. They had even set up a temporary joint Reading Room for them right across from the beach.

The two books now known as Ezra and Nehemiah in the King James Version were originally compiled as a single volume of uncertain date, probably about 350 B. C.

Even a degree of spiritual understanding compels social awareness, responsibility, and action. An increasing understanding of Christian Science leads one naturally to expand his horizons until all mankind are included in one healing affection.

Mother love is one of the most admirable forms of human expression. By it a mother reflects a measure of the loving care of Father-Mother God.