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Crime expressed in violence in the streets is presenting a problem that demands swift solution. People have often been tempted to redress injustice both privately and publicly by taking the law into their own hands.

Not long ago a newspaper advertisement for a famous charity showed the picture of an emaciated child. The caption read in part: "What has this child done to deserve it? An innocent child and a living skeleton.

Justice is the foundation stone of a righteous government. Daniel Webster said of it: "Justice.

Perhaps no need is greater today than that of correcting the ills of the world in a just and right way. Many action groups are busy searching for and urging ways of reform.

The Christian Science Sunday School Handbook, introduced only two years ago, is on the verge of being published in eight more languages. This 86-page volume has met with such enthusiasm that printings in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, and Dutch are now considered a necessity.

In the previous article, mention was made of the primitive source often called "J," written in Judah and stressing the term Jehovah, one of the spellings used for Yahweh or Yahwah, often translated Lord. This is the name for Deity so characteristic of the account of creation that begins in the second chapter of Genesis, from verse 4 onward.

An old Bible story tells that Jacob once had a dream that has since become well known. "He dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

The Church of Christ, Scientist, was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in accord with divine revelation. It manifests the activity of infinite Principle, God.

The careful study of Christian Science according to the instructions given by Mrs. Eddy is sufficient to equip the student of this religion with a satisfactory healing approach to the problems that arise in his daily experience.

In an age of computers, human beings find themselves being numbered for bank accounts, census purposes, and job identity. Membership drives of fraternal organizations, clubs, and churches are another kind of numbering, which is sometimes carried on with little regard for quality as the search for numbers grows.