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In every legitimate human activity accuracy enables one to play one's part well. Even in sports one must perform accurately.

A well-known song from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera contains this verse: Oh, 'tis a glorious thing, I ween, To be a regular Royal Queen! No half-in-half affair, I mean, But a right down regular Royal Queen. The Gondoliers: One fresh summer morning I found myself singing this with carefree abandon on a car journey alone.

In this age of highly developed communication, promotion, and advertising methods, it is really not too surprising that so many branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are giving active thought to the subject of finding better ways to promote Christian Science in their communities. Reading Rooms are being moved to better locations, church services are being actively and effectively advertised, and lecture promotion is becoming much more imaginative and comprehensive in its reach to the non-Christian Science community.

Are any of us in trouble? If so, there is a right and positive way out. This way is open now, and Christian Science is showing it to us.

A Church of Christ, Scientist, whose Sunday and Wednesday services are healing the sick should have no attendance problem other than that of finding seats enough for those who come. All who participate in a service of such a church are lifted to higher concepts of God, Life and Love, and to clearer views of man, the reflection of God.

Mrs. Eddy sent this message to a class of students in the Board of Education in 1905: " Beloved :—I am glad you enjoy the dawn of Christian Science; you must reach its meridian.

Perhaps one of the hardest things in Christian Science for people to grasp is the statement that matter is not real. Yet this fact is fundamental to the understanding and practice of Christian Science.

Approachability is the whole idea behind the successful new Reading Room of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Palo Alto, California. Through it the church members show their community that Christian Science isn't something that needs to be hidden behind curtained windows but that it's a bright, exciting, outgoing, adventurous religion.

As has been suggested in this series, that remarkable book described in the familiar King James Version as "The Book of the Prophet Isaiah" is considered by competent scholars to cover a wide period of Israel's eventful history. There is little question that the major part of the first thirty-nine chapters came from the pen of "Isaiah the son of Amoz" ( Isa.

What is the central and basic plea of nonwhite people today, which is the same throughout the world? We hear it from a Commissioner on Human Rights, like Carrol Waymon, or from spokesmen like Nana Mahomo of South Africa. We hear it from people who will go on foot rather than be made to ride in the back of a bus.