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Statistics on the subject of crime often stagger the imagination. When the Christ, or Truth, as revealed in Christian Science, is more generally understood and practiced, material beliefs, opposed to the Christ, are stirred to their utmost.

The extraordinary progress of the physical sciences in the last century has suggested to some that a particular way of thinking, termed "the scientific method," is especially productive. They propose applying it to other phases of thought and experience in the expectation of comparable advances.

The chairman of the department of journalism at a large university recently confided that he knew many people who wanted to write and had useful ideas to share. "But," he concluded sadly, "all they ever do is talk about it.

Christian Scientists have no reason to be alarmed or perplexed by the churning and change so visibly under way in the world today. They recognize that the leaven of Truth is at work in every phase of human experience, more so than ever before in modern times.

Disarmament is a subject in which men of goodwill all over the world are deeply interested. Statesmen and politicians who have the welfare of their own nations at heart seek to keep armaments so proportioned that their nation may hold the preponderance of power.

As Christian Scientists move into the second century of Christian Science, the challenges confronting them appear to intensify. To those who are striving to understand and demonstrate the truths of spiritual being, these challenges take the form of more aggressive, ever stiffer competition.

One of the wise provisions made by Mrs. Eddy for the instruction and continued guidance of students of Christian Science was the establishment of class instruction and of associations of class-taught students.

A vital point in demonstrating Christian Science is always to separate error from the individual. Evil traits, wrong thinking, sickness, and discord are never man.

Communication between men and cultures is taking place in the world today at a rate only less rapid than progress in physical communication. Time has caught up with Kipling's famous couplet, "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

First Isaiah, as the author of Isaiah, Chapters 1-39, is often termed, seems to have made his home at Jerusalem. His apparent contacts with four reigning kings suggest that he was a man of rank and a trusted counselor.