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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.

We should be alert to the claims of mental malpractice to defend ourselves properly against this foe. Recognizing that it is an enemy prods us to face up to it and handle it properly.

A well-known rule followed by news reporters is to be certain that their stories answer the five questions: "Who? What? Where? When? Why?" These five questions have proved to be a means of awakening the writer to a clearer understanding of her spiritual status as the reflection of God. Recently she was experiencing a severe headache, and suddenly the five questions mentioned above came vividly to her thought.

If you were to ask a Christian Scientist if he ever becomes intoxicated, he would undoubtedly answer with a vigorous No. A Christian Scientist knows that to indulge in intoxicating drinks would be inconsistent with the teachings of his religion.

Any truly successful individual, whatever his line of endeavor, has achieved success because he has had a clear purpose and ordered his life by an impulsion to fulfill this purpose. Realizing a unique individual purpose is a challenge we all face.