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The Best Is Yet To Be . . . . Ernest Holmes 2

Leon Knap 7

What Was the Resurrection? W. L. Bank 10

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"From Glory to Glory" . . . . Raymond Charles Barker 17

"Metaphysics With a Chuckle" . . Marguerite E. Brown 19

Where Will You Spend Your Eternity? Edgar White Burrill 23

Gladys Goin Lent 29

Don Blanding 31

Resurrection Contrasted . . . . Elsie Grafius 35

The Elements of Character Christian D. Larson 39

Samaritans Anonymous . . . . Charles Carson 44

"If Ye Then Be Risen . . . " . . . Maude Allison Lathem 48

Stanley W. Bartlett 50

How Religious Science Has Helped Me 82

The Parents' Science of Mind Clinic . Willa Fogle 84

A Hobby With Words . . . . Grenville Kleiser 87

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 89

Report of First Annual Congress Charles Kinnear 90

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--<• pafcATHER, into thy hands I 1 I coinmencl my spirit." Cai These historic words,

ascribed to Jesus at the close of his mission in this life, imply­ing as they do a supreme con­fidence in the universe and in the immortality of the soul, are fraught with peculiar signifi­cance to us at the Easter season. And those other words, spoken to the woman at the empty sepulcher when she said, "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him" — "I who speak unto you am he"; and still another thought given to his disciples when one of them asked Jesus, "What is God's relationship to the dead?" and Jesus answered, "He is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him" — all imply that this great spiritual genius had pene­trated the mystery of birth, human experience and physical disintegration. He knew the

soul to be immortal. "In my Father's house are many man­sions." He taught that this is but one of the innumerable planes for the soul on its ever-expanding pathway of self-un-foldment. And today, after nearly two thousand years of history have passed between, the throngs of people who come out to Easter services bear elo­quent testimony to this man's teaching and to that hope which is uppermost in people's thought — the belief in, and the celebration of, the immortality of their own soul.

Since man first began to med­itate deeply and earnestly upon the spiritual meaning of life, there has always been a teach­ing that this physical plane is but a dense manifestation of a more subde and ethereal plane, that this physical body is but a counterpart of an immaterial body. For, "there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial

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. . . so also is the resurrection of the dead . . . it is sown in weak­ness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a nat­ural body, and there is a spirit­ual body." This passage, which has been familiar to all of us since childhood, has a more significant meaning to us today than ever before, for today even the scientific world is penetrat­ing the mystery of the mind and of the soul, and, at least theoretically, has resolved the m a t e r i a l w o r l d into l ines of force and energy. It is becoming increasingly difficult for a mate­rialist to find a peg upon which to hang his hat. H e is not at h o m e i n the new u n i v e r s e which science proclaims, even as he has never been at home in the universe which spiritual in­tuition has announced.

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." How true it is that our objective world is but a faint representation of that i n v i s i b l e r e a l m w h e r e t h e thought, will and imagination fused into one, project this thing which we call personal­

ity. " H e is not a God of the dead, but of the living." T h i s answer which Jesus gave to the inquiry, "What is God's rela­tionship to the dead?" is identi­cal with the answer we should expect a man to give who had already plunged beneath the material surface and discovered the spiritual Cause. In the phi­losophy of Jesus there was no l o n g i n t e r m e d i a t e stage be­tween this life and the next. D i d he not say to the one who appeared to die with him — "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise"? H o w brief but how satisfying! T h e sun cannot set upon the glory of the soul.

' T o d a y shalt thou be with me in paradise." Jesus implied that the man would carry his complete personality along with him—his ability to know and to be known, to see and to be seen, to walk, talk, commune with and understand his new en­vironment. N o t only does the soul long for such a continuity, but reason demands it. N o w immortality is either a principle in the universe or it has no ex­istence. Consequently, if im-ortality is a principle, it must be true for every living soul. It would not be rational to assume

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that the Divine Creative Intel­ligence incarnates in some and then withdraws Its presence from them, nor can intelligence accept the proposition that some people are immortal while others are not. It certainly does not seem reasonable to suppose that immortality is a thing to be bargained for over some cosmic counter. How much more sane a position Robert Browning took when he said, "All that is at all, lasts ever past recall." And again when he said, "I trust that good shall come at last, alike, to all."

The spiritually illumined of the ages have taught the im­mortality of every man, the continuity of every man's indi­vidualized stream of God-con­sciousness and self-awareness. We may desecrate our spiritual natures; we may temporarily dishonor or disown them; we may temporarily prolong the advent of our heaven, but since "He is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him," somewhere, under some condition, we shall all awake from our sleep. This is the meaning of that saying, "Awake thou that sleepest, and

arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

"There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial... so also is the resurrection of the dead . . . it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a nat­ural body and there is a spiritual body." What does this mean? Mind and Spirit are not in the body. The body is within Mind and Spirit. Mind and Spirit operate through the body, but are not caught by it. "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped . . . and there shall be no more death." This physical body, which nature has provided for our use on this plane, is real enough or we would not have it, but it is not eternal. It is some part of the flux and flow of the activity of Life upon Itself on the physical plane, but it is not flesh and blood that inherit the kingdom of the next plane. This, perhaps, is what Jesus re­ferred to when he implied that if they destroyed his physical body he would raise up another like unto it. And I presume it is what Socrates meant when

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he told them they would have to catch Socrates before they could kill him.

There is a spiritual body and a material body, and they do not interfere with each other. It is the nature of consciousness to take form and there must be some form on every plane if there is to be self-realization. But when, by reason of any fact, this human form is no longer a fit instrument through which the soul may express on this plane, then the Spirit defi­nitely severs Itself from this form and "passes to inherit a residence afresh." "In my Fa­ther's house are many man­sions." Just as nature has pro­vided that when we enter this life we are met by loving friends, so no one passes into the next life alone.

"And with the dawn, their happy faces smile,

Which we have loved long since, and lost awhile."

Who is there who has passed the meridian of this experience which we call middle-age, who does not have as many friends on one plane as on the other? And though we see the door close behind them as they make their exit from this life, does not

that same door open before them as they make their en­trance into the next?

All of our physical senses may be reproduced in the mind alone and it is the mind and spirit which are eternal, not the body, not the human form. When we leave this plane we shall carry with us everything which makes for the warmth and color of our human person­ality, since "all that is at all, lasts ever past recall." The uniqueness of individual self-expression, the charm of per­sonal contact, are non-physical qualities of the soul and may be expressed on one plane as easily as another. That which seems death to us is really resurrection to the one who passes from this experience into the next. The principle of evolution has no backward glances; it gathers the experiences of the past and pushes these experiences into the future. Its spiral is ever up­ward and onward, it never re­traces its steps.

This is the glorious concep­tion which we may have this Easter season when we com­memorate the fidelity of one man to his idea of life, which was so complete that he demon-

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strated to his followers the in­destructible reality of his own soul. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." With this in mind, should we not at­tach a new meaning and a new significance, a new glory to the integrity of our own soul? It seems true that wherever the logical affinity of the soul makes desirable a reunion on the next plane with those we have known on this, then such reunion is guaranteed by this affinity. Jesus brought this out very clearly to his followers, demonstrating that after he had severed his soul from his body, he remained the same personal­ity whom they had known.

So we are to think of our friends as faring on in the larger life, in a more serene atmos­phere, but still themselves. Can

we not say with Robert Brown­ing:

"Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be,

The last of life for which the first was made.

Our times are in His hand Who saith, 'A whole I

planned, Youth shows but half;

trust God: see all, nor be afraid!' "

Let us, then, seek that Divine Reality which ever enfolds us in Its eternal embrace, that Spirit which is within, around and about us, that inspiration which is the guiding star of our soul. And as we permit Eternity to make a new imprint upon our mind, to enlarge the bound­aries of our spiritual horizon, to break down the intellectual bar­riers of our thought, then we shall view the world "as one vast plane and one boundless reach of sky," and we may walk into the Light, in joy.

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven. Kindly words, sympathizing atten­tions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitive­ness — these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. —F. W. ROBERTSON

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supply? If so, you are probably thinking horizontal instead of vertical. If you form your conclusions by what you see and hear, you are thinking horizontal. The appearance of things is your horizon and hori­zon means: "bound or limited." If you are lacking in anything, it is because you are thinking along a horizontal line, and a horizontal line is a M I N U S line. You are thinking minus God or Truth. The answer to your lack is to cross your minus line with

the vertical line of Truth, for vertical means verity or truth, the highest point. When you cross that minus line you imme­diately have a plus sign, or the symbol of Christianity, the abundant life.

Jesus said: "Judge not ac­cording to the appearance," for to judge by appearances is to judge without Truth. Truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Your earthly horizon is changing constantly and has no stability. Your judgment, based on what you see has no support, no sustaining quality,

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no verity. Just as a cross needs a vertical bar to sustain its hori­zontal bar, we too must cross our horizontal line with the ver­tical line of Truth to sustain us, to give us support in our con­tact with a changing world.

If you are a business man who thinks first of profit, you are thinking horizontal or minus. If your first considera­tion in any kind of bargaining is service to your fellowman, you are thinking vertical, or at the highest point, and that is think­ing with God Mind. Your busi­ness is then supported by Truth, the same now and for­ever. If you are a clock watcher, you are living on the minus line of lack or separation from God's abundance. If you put love into your work, give more than you are paid for, you will lose your selfishness and find the abun­dance, or God's plus, for those that love Him. Gratitude for God's love carries you high up the vertical line of Truth which automatically increases your horizon with all the added things.

If you want to be loved, if you are lonely, if you want greater health, get off the minus line of thought by releasing

your love in service to all of God's creation, for God can do nothing for you until you re­lease His love. A God of Love can only help you by working through you. He has no other way to care for His children. To love God is to walk the vertical line.

When I was a boy, I lived in a valley city. The street I lived on was very long, so I thought then, when I trudged off to school. Then one day we had a school picnic on the summit of one of the great hills overlook­ing the valley which nestled my little home town. I was amazed when I looked down upon my street, so small and insignificant and but a tiny part of the great panorama which my eyes be­held from this high point. I had increased my horizon, and for the first time in my life I real­ized what a wonderful and in­teresting city my little home town had become. I was up high enough for my eyes to claim all the added things. When we seek the Truth back of all man­ifestation, we are seeking the Kingdom of Heaven, God, or the Truth, the highest point. To think vertical is to rise in consciousness of an omnipres-

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ent God, an all-wise and loving Father calling us to come ever higher that we may know there is no need to be anxious for the things of the earth, for as we rise higher in gratitude and lov­ing service, our minus line is crossed with the vertical line of Truth and keeps expanding as we continue to rise. Here you have the analogy of cross think­ing, or the proof that God has provided all things for His children.

The mountain climber car­ries no excess weight when scal­

ing the peaks. He travels light. We too must unload the burden of resentment, worry and selfishness. These things hold us in bondage to the minus line of our small horizon. We rise higher only by giving and to give is to grow, to grow is to use what we have in lov­ing service to all of God's crea­tion. It is then from this high point of spiritual living that love pluses our minus line and all lack is crossed out by our new viewpoint of God's wis­dom, beauty and power.

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What Was the Resurrection?

W. L. Barth

rr^T^C^iTHOUT question, the eternality of all life. The re-\ T a ? # most distinctive reli- newal of the the earth under \J\J gious festival observed the spell of the advent of

in our Southland is that of spring, the awakening of na-Easter. Perhaps in no other ture to the newness of life and place are such colorful and im- beauty, the ecstasy of birds in posing Easter pageants pre- their morning song, the jubi-sented as in California. The lant hymns of triumph of the nearby mountain areas lend multitude — all these are parts themselves admirably to sug- of a great God-consciousness, gestions of the broken hills of inbreathing a hope and a faith the Holy Land and of the won- in the life immortal, of which drous thing recorded to have all the ages have dreamed. It is there taken place in the early thus no accident that has fixed dawn of that first Easter morn- the Eastertide in the early ing of the long ago. Multiplied spring of the year; for spring is thousands of pilgrims of the to mankind the ever-renewed Christian faith rise long before evidence of Life. There is no dawn on Easter Sunday to at- death in nature; there is only tend one of the many open air living and living again, gatherings, where, led by great Thus the Easter season, ever choirs of singers, they greet the returning to the earth in the dawning day with reverent miracle of springtime, renews worship and joyful song. in o u r human consciousness the

Dimly, perhaps with feelings ever-deepening wonder of Life not quite understood, the great —that we may have Life and throngs of worshippers have in- have It more abundantly. We born to them a sense of the sense the truth — deeper and

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more convincing than logic — that the mysterious Power and Wisdom that yearly weaves the colors and forms of the flowers and all vegetation is at the root of our own life, ever quicken­ing it into ideals of beauty that shall never fade. Easter is thus the ever-recurring cosmic sym­bol of man's deepest faith in the soul's inherent immortal nature —a nature that shall at the last blossom into the richness and fullness of its original and in­stinctive Life.

But to this somewhat instinc­tive faith of mankind in the deeper meaning of the Easter season, there is a specific truth of which it speaks to the en­lightened heart; and that is the beatific truth enshrined in the Christian faith, that at least one of the Sons of Men transcended the power of death and the grave and returned to earth after his burial to bear witness to the deathlessness of Spirit and the immortality of human life. This startling and well-nigh unbelievable fact is, at the last, what the Easter faith means to the Christian world of today, even as it was the central fact of the unquenchable faith of the early Church.

The original story upon which this altogether untoward incident in the life of the race is based, is written for us with rare winsomeness and charm in the New Testament records of our Christian faith. It is the story of the most gracious of men—he whose only crime was that he went about doing good, seeking by the most rational means to bring to mankind the full, deep meaning of life — crucified on a cross as a blas­phemer and malefactor. In deepest sorrow his immediate friends laid his body in a bor­rowed tomb, and in his burial they buried as well all their dearest hopes, for they had hoped that this was he who should restore to Israel their former national glory and establish anew the Kingdom— the dream of every enlightened Jew. But now their hopes were crushed. Their Master had died a felon's death and in be­wilderment and utter despair they went back to their daily tasks, broken hearted and dis­illusioned.

What now transfigured that story of defeat into a gospel of a triumphant and victorious faith? This — that because of

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what had been revealed to them, beyond the peradventure of a doubt, they believed that their Master and Teacher had transcended the power of death and the grave and had made himself known unto them. Small wonder that many sin­cere and earnest souls have since that day doubted the truth of the Apostles' tale. May they not have been deceived? May not their great love for their dear friend have created within them illusions which in time colored their willing faith?

This we know to be true: the resurrection faith of the early followers of Jesus ushered in a new era into the faith of the ages. Men had always be­lieved in the immortality of the human soul, but never before had this faith been demon­strated to the race. Here was a body of plain, honest men who testified and proclaimed that they no longer hoped in these things; they knew—for had not their hearts thrilled with won­der and joy as their friend met with them and made himself known to them after death had wrought its work upon him? Small wonder that the faith of

mankind has stood abashed and trembling, not knowing whether to think of all these records as childish legends or a revelation of the most tran­scendent truth of all the ages.

It is clearly evident to every sincere student that something strange and startling took place on this first Easter morning. What was it? No other event in history has been subjected to such thorough and keen inves­tigation. The ablest thinkers of the world are fully convinced that something occurred on that eventful day that has in­fluenced the life and thought of the race as no other event known to man. Destroy or in­validate that faith and the Christian faith has ceased to be, for the heart of the Chris­tian faith is not a crucified Jesus, but a Living Christ.

The question that then pre­sents itself is: What is the re­ality that underlies our Easter faith? How was this reality manifested? In this age of exact science and comparative freedom from superstition and folk-lore, is there any corrobo­rative evidence that makes this happening of nineteen hun­dred years ago creditable and

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understandable? These ques­tions are not asked in the spirit of skepticism, but in a sincere desire to know the truth.

Perhaps the best clue to a clear understanding of that something that transpired on the Easter morning of the long ago, is the fact that the earliest written accounts of the event are not those in the four Gos­pels, but in the life and history of Paul, to whom the Living Christ was the one great reality of personal experience. Twenty years or more before the gospel story of the Christ was written, Paul had put into writing the fifteenth chapter of First Co­rinthians; and in this letter he states his faith that Christ did rise from the dead, that he ap­peared to Peter, then to the Twelve, then to five hundred of the faithful at once. "And fitially he was seen hy me also, as though I were born at the wrong time." The experience to which Paul here refers was his vision on the way to Damascus, when, "a sudden light flashed around him from heaven" and he heard a voice, which said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting."

This experience, be it re­

membered, took place at least six years after the events of the first Easter morning, and Paul puts his experience to himself on the same level with the earlier visions of the disciples, as coming from the same source and having to do with the same ineffable reality. St. Paul's entire gospel message, as that of the other Apostles, was a gospel of Resurrection. He believed in a risen Christ be­cause he had seen him. What, then, was the nature of that noon-day vision that Paul ex-perienced on his way to Damascus and which he in­terpreted as an appearance of the Risen Living Christ? Man­ifestly, it was a subjective expe­rience, a spiritual insight — an unveiling of that world of Reality, ever present but mani­fest only in those all too rare human experiences when con­sciousness is clarified to behold that which is hidden to our material sense. It was in this sense that Paul afterward spoke of his experience: "It pleased God to reveal His Son in me."

The experience, without doubt, was an inner one, that of a spiritual force from the

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unseen, to which his inner soul life responded. That this clue is in harmony with the facts is in harmony with the impres­sion left upon the minds of some of the immediate disciples of Jesus in that it left them in doubt, wondering what precise activity lay behind the glimpse they had of the Risen Christ.

The spiritual implications inherent in this well-known Easter story are inspiring to every student of Religious Sci­ence. The psychic character of the story is manifest to every student of our present-day psy­chology. The vital Christian faith in a "Risen Christ" is not only unimpaired but abun­dantly substantiated and cor­roborated by innumerable psychic manifestations of like nature in which the departed unmistakably made known the fact that they were still alive and active in some higher sphere of life. "Modern science, which began by limiting the human horizon, is now enlarg­ing it on every side. It is dis­covering that the instruments it uses are not so adequate as it once thought for sizing up man and his destiny. It cannot ex­plain him by its cycle of laws.

At a dozen points he breaks through them into another sphere, and his history breaks through likewise."

In other words, we are gradu­ally learning the truth, known to such high spirits as Jesus and the mystics of all ages, that our universe is a spiritual order, regnant with spiritual meaning and life. Man, essen­tially, is Spirit, here and now, and ever and again there breaks in upon his dull, drab life of purely material activity a flash, an unveiling, a glimpse of the Real World of Spirit, bearing witness to his essential relationship to a higher world of Reality than this transient world of time and sense. The central fact of our Easter faith is that Jesus revealed himself as alive to his friends after his death on the cross, and they knew it was he. And it is this fact of the certainty of the con­tinuity of life after the episode we call death that is the central fact being made known to our present day by the patient re­searchers of psychic science.

Truly, if man is immortal at all, he is immortal now. Death does not usher us into eternity.

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Eternity is present with us here and now. It needs but a higher way of thinking and living to make us aware of the Power of an endless life that tran­scends all we have believed and feared of death. Argu­ments in this sphere of think­ing are useless. Our logic, we know, convinces no one, but there is a realm of life where with undimmed vision we look

through the shadows of mortal­ity into the life of the im­mortal. T h e n shall we know, wherever our paths may lead, at last they shall lead us to H i m who is our life, and in W h o m we shall renew our fel­lowship with those of our dear dead, whom we have loved long since and lost awhile—for our God is not the God of the dead, but of the Living.

Weekly Study Outline From the Revised Edition, ' T h e Science of M i n d , " Textbook

Arranged by Special Church Committee

APRIL 2, 1950 The March of Triumph

March 27 to A p r i l 1, incl. , R E F ­E R E N C E S : Psalm 23 ; Textbook, Pages 118 to 122 , " L i m i t l e s s M e d i u m " through "Christ and A n t i - C h r i s t " ; Page 494, " B e Strong In T h e L o r d " ; Questions and Answers, Page 35, " U n i ­fying the Self with the W h o l e . "

APRIL 9, 1950 Life Is Immortal Now

A p r i l 3 to 8 incl. , R E F E R E N C E S : John 4:7-21; Textbook, Page 371, " T h e Meaning of Immortality" and Pages 372 to end of first paragraph 377; Questions and Answers, Page 154, "Immortality Explained. "

APRIL 16, 1950 Your Word Has Power

A p r i l 10 to 15 incl. , R E F E R E N C E S : Luke 4:31-37; Textbook, Pages 90 to 95, "Creative Medium, Subjective In­telligence and L a w , " Questions and Answers, Page 118, " L a w of Non-re­sistance."

APRIL 23, 1950 Abundance Is Mine

A p r i l 17 to 22 i n d . , R E F E R E N C E S : Matthew 14:14-21; Textbook, Pages 266 to 270, " N o t Something for Noth­i n g " and Page 450, " T h e Concept of a Successful M a n , " Questions and An­swers, Page 32, " T h i n k i n g T h r o u g h . "

APRIL 30, 1950 Tension or Attention

A p r i l 24 to 29 incl. , R E F E R E N C E S : Proverbs 3; Textbook, Pages 244 to 247, " N e r v e T r o u b l e " ; Page 579, "Concentration" ; Questions and Answers, Page 52, " H o w T o Concentrate."

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From Glory to Glory Raymond Charles Barker

O T H L N G can inhibit the man who knows God, and knows Him aright.

No stone can long stay before the tomb of crystal l ized thought, when he who is with­in knows Truth. Easter is the eternal symbol of the larger Man, the greater Thought and the perfect Mind. We who be­lieve in God as a resurrecting Mind must bear witness of this in our lives. What Jesus did, we, too, can do, else we are in a world in which Law does not function, and this cannot be so. The Law says that what one man has done, any man may do, provided he can create the same conditions.

Jesus had spent thirty-three years disciplining his thought and feeling to the knowledge of the Omnipotence of the in­dwelling Spirit. He knew, as no other man has known, that God was in him as his mind, his life and love. This sure knowledge

on his part lifted his conscious­ness beyond the belief in death to the belief in the eternal pro­gression and unfoldment of man. His demonstration proved his teachings that the essential nature of man is consciousness, and consciousness cannot die with a body, but must move on in an endless progression of thought.

Mary Magdelene and the other women came looking for a body. They had not yet grasped what the great teacher had told them for three years. Repeatedly he had said that he was Spirit and he was Truth, and that these great realities of man could not perish and be buried in a tomb. They are the free part of each of us; they are the essence and the guarantee of our eternal selfhood. All our limited states of mind, all our negative beliefs in sin, sickness and death merely delay the ac­tion of God through us, but

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they never stop it, for God will demonstrate Himself through man despite all of man's false conclusions.

The tomb represents our own false beliefs, our own de­cisions that we are old, tired, sick and unhappy. No one places us in our mental tombs save ourselves, and no one frees us from them save ourselves. Christ in the midst of our minds stands ready to roll away the heavy stone of "I can't, I shouldn't," and seeks to release us into the possibilities of God that abide in man, but we must seek this inner One. Al l our self-analysis as to why we are in trouble is our cross; our con­clusions based upon material facts and confused thinking is our tomb. Into these traps of mortal thought we walk, and

then suddenly we realize that we have been caught in the web of our own weaving. As we turn to the One Presence, the One Power and the One Mind and acknowledge Its omnipo­tence, the stone rolls away and we walk forth as free men, be­cause we have freed ourselves of all evil.

Easter is the triumph of the Divine Nature of man over his own misconceptions of what he is. It is the proof that we, too, can walk free from any prob­lem, when we have crossed out the negatives and forgiven the trespasses of our own wrong thinking. Rise, we shall, for God is the inevitable for every man, and we are led into a higher consciousness from glory to glory, from idea to idea throughout all time to come.

There can be no science in living until one realizes that man, himself, is a creator and especially in his today is he creating his tomorrow; that the images he creates and entertains in his thought today, whether he describes those pictures in words or emphasizes them in acts or not, are the working plans which will be used by the power and intelligence that is supreme in his life in building the facts, forms and experiences of tomor­row. Tomorrow is his goal, today is his wayside and the thought life of the wayside determines the realization of the goal. —DR. A . A . LINDSAY (Mind The Builder)

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Marguerite E. Brown

Behold, the Red Cow

ow STOP THAT! I heard somebody say "Phooey," and saw someone wet

his finger to flip this page. Don't be like that. If you do, you'll be sorry.

But for those who simply must have a profound and in­tellectual statement to justify such a tide in the name the day I become convinced that I have served the well-being of mankind as greatly as has the red cow, on that day will I know that I have indeed not lived in vain.

How about you? So there, that ought to hold you for a while.

To proceed: Here we are, you and I, going along day after day, doing just exactly as

we dum-de-dum please, giving the L A W no never-you-mind whatever. Al l at once we de­cide we want something. So we start saying, " L A W , gimme, gimme — and give me lots of it." Then we sourly wonder why what we get is not all-good, all-beautiful, all-bounti­ful . . .

I know a farmer who owns a Red Cow. He gets up early in the morning to serve her. He curries and brushes and washes her. He oils her udder. He cleans house for her and waters and feeds her. On stormy winter mornings, he serves her even more; prepares a bucket of warm mash — even heats her water so that she can drink her fill in comfort.

He strokes her nose and rubs

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her ears. He speaks afection-ate words of good cheer to her; whistles her a merry tune; sings her a sweet song.

T h e n he sits down to milk, and she gives h im a great brim­ming bucket of milk.

I asked, " W h y all the love-making and sweet noises?"

He looked surprised. " A n y ­thing you work with has got to know you're happy, that you re for it all the way. Take Red C o w . S h e re laxes a n d lets down more milk. Richer, too."

It figured. But all day long that farmer worked for that cow; c u l t i v a t i n g , harvesting, storing up food for her. At night, out he went again to give another f u l l treatment of v a l e t s e r v i c e , m a i d service, chef's service—and with music and love pats thrown i n .

T h e n again he sat down and milked, and she gave h im a great brimming bucketful of milk.

I said, "Does Red C o w own you, or do you own Red Cow? You serve her morning, noon and night. W h a t does she ever do for you?"

"That"s a fool question," he grinned. "She gives me milk. That's what I want from her."

One day I said, " W h y don't you take a few days off and come on a vacation trip with me?"

H i s answer was immediate and decisive. "Can't do it. Can't leave Red C o w . "

Again I asked, " W h i c h of you owns which?"

"Before you began to pester me about it, I never thought of i t , " he chuckled, "but now that I do think of it, I figure it this way. Anyth ing a man owns, anything he makes his own, well , he's got to do it all the good he knows how or it won't do h im any good. Common sense."

That's what the man said. But suppose the story went

like this: T h e farmer has this Red C o w , but he doesn't pay any attention to her at a l l . All day he goes around doing just exactly as he dum - de - dum pleases. This is his life. He has to take care of himself. Let Red C o w take care of herself.

But all at once he decides he wants some milk, so he goes out and shouts, "Red C o w , give me mi lk . "

T h e cow looks at h i m and answers, "I can't give you milk.

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It is my nature to give you milk and I want to, but I can­not. Y o u have not served me morning, noon and night. You have not kept me clean, nor nourished me with good things to ful f i l l my requirements for giving milk to you."

At this, the frmer waxes angry and beats her over the head a little bit, and shouts again, "Red Cow, give me milk. Give me milk, I say."

But it does no good, for he has not served her in all the good ways he knows. A n d all she can give h im is a bucketful of nothingness, strictly from hunger . . .

So, all at once we shout at the LAW, "Gimme, and gimme lots of it, and make it all good."

T h e LAW responds, "It is my n a t u r e t o g i v e y o u f u l l measure, heaped up and run­ning over. But you have not served me morning, noon and night. Y o u have not kept me (subjective mind) clean, nor have you stored up good for me, nor nourished me in the good ways you know to fu l f i l l m y r e q u i r e m e n t s for g i v i n g much good to you."

T h e n we wax angry and beat the LAW over the head a little bit (blame It, blame L i f e f o r o u r l a c k , s u f f e r i n g , troubles), and we demand again, "LAW, gimme, I say. G i m m e . "

A l l we get is a l i feful of n o t h i n g n e s s , s t r i c t l y f r o m hunger.

There you are. That's a l l .

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C T " i L T H o u G H four-fifths of theology, which held that man the two billion people was predestined to be and do

y y of the world are non- what he did, and that infants Christian, practically all believe were eternally damned unless in God and in their own immor- they had been properly bap-tal life. Even in darkest Africa, tizcd before they died, where the natives uncontami- But Kismet fatalism is not the nated by civilized theology be- same as Karma, which is like lieve in God as Spirit, as the our Law of Cause and Effect American Indians also did, they W e do believe that as a man believe in life after death. So th inks , he becomes; that we may assume that practically thought is causative, and out of everybody believes in everlast- it are the issues of life; but that ing life. W e know that we are we can change resulting desri-living in eternity now, just as ny by changing our thinking, we are living somewhere in W e have been both in heav-endless space. W e are citizens en and hell on this earth. Heav-not only of this world, but of en has often been defined as the infinity, and shall live eternally, place where all our dreams are

But where, how, is another realized, and we can do all the

f>roblem. In the Far East mil- things we were not able to do ions believe in Kismet, a fatal- on earth. Certainly few have

ism that refuses man any free- done here what they like best, dom whatsoever, destined as he Most have been forced into is, they say, to be what he is and earning a living in the nearest where he is, whatever he may available way, and most are mis-think or do. This is not far re- fits at that. The question as to moved from former Western where this future Paradise is to

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he is something else again; yet why not right here on earth once more?

Where better? Most of us have had a fair share of happi­ness here, and if not we shall not find it by just leaving the body behind. It will be a relief to be free henceforth from pay­ing rent, grocery bills, or ali­mony, no doubt; but Jesus said that heaven was not a place, not a geographical location some­where out beyond the stars to which we went, but within our­selves — a state of conscious­ness, harmonious, serene, and full of loving kindness to all mankind.

Heaven not a place, but a condition of mind; you not a body, but spiritual conscious­ness; the true self invisible al­ways; the Thinker who says: I A M ; I AM SPIRIT ming a body for a while, not a body having a spirit. And so heaven possible right here and now, as well as hell, whether in the body or out.

And how shall we spend our eternity, once free of the body? Not very differendy, at first, from the way we do now. Jesus walked from his tomb u n ­changed but glorified. He had

a body still; he said Touch me and see that I am not a spirit; and he ate food with his dis­ciples to prove i t He showed them his scars. The mark of the wounds was still there, though his body was more luminous, lighter even than when he had walked to them on the water. A body of Light, our garment of the next phase.

Mankind has sought symbols to represent his heaven. The American Indian conceived it as a happy hunting ground, where plenty of venison always hung ready in the wigwams and tec pecs. The Mohammed­an, who had plurality of wives, saw it as a paradise peopled with lovely maidens. The Puri­tan, influenced by St. John's Revelation, took his symbolism l i t e r a l l y , p i c t u r i n g golden streets, a walled city with jew­elled gates, crowns and harps and community singing. May­be they envied the crowned heads of earth, which seemed to have better times than their own; but few of them had ever tried to play a harp. What pan­demonium if we should all start learning at once. And crowns are very heavy, while metal streets are hard on the feet.

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Such a static heaven does not seem rational. W e made some progress here; we shall learn more there. The Oriental idea of Nirvana, therefore, does not appeal to us; for to have our identity obliterated, like a rain drop falling into the sea, is to forego all we have won through our struggles. The one thing we have learned, surely, is charac­ter, and without individuality, buttressed at first by memory, all we have won seems futile. The Law of Justice surely re­wards our victories, and we know that they are infrequendy rewarded here. Character, iden­tity, memory are all we can take with us. It is rational to believe that we shall know as we are known.

Sometimes we remember here what must have happened to us heretofore. Recurrent childhood dreams of experienc­es not encountered in this life are not uncommon. I used to dream of being lost in a boat at sea, and, again, of dying in a burning house. I never drown­ed or burned here certainly, nor had any contact with such ex­periences at that time. A l l of us have visited places where, sud­denly, it seemed like coming

home. In a foreign land, a note of far-distant memory is struck, and we exclaim: "Why, I know this place well: I have been here before." Perhaps we have indeed.

Hel l itself can only be re­morse for things we did or fail­ed to do, and inharmony will persist until we have done all possible to make them good. This idea of moral reparations is expressed in purgatory, a pro­bationary period where our con­science perceives our errors, for­gives, and is forgiven. Certainly this is more reasonable than the idea of eternal damnation, as pictured in Dore's drawings for Dante's Infemo, with the con­demned souls frozen fast in ice, just their eyes showing, or stew­ed, fried or roasted in everlast­ing fire. There was Tantalus also, forever denied food and drink though it was always near at hand; Ixion bound to his wheel, and that other gende-man forever push ing great boulders up a hi l l , only to have them always roll back when al­most at the top. Modern purga­tory is shown in recent films, " A Guy Named Joe," "Here Comes M r . Jordan," 'Topper," "Universal Station," etc. — a

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sort of intermediate transfer point l i k e Chinese rai lroad signs: 'Tour baggage delivered in all directions.'

W e sometimes remember people we have known before. When we fall in love suddenly, we say, "I feel I have known you all my life." Perhaps we have, and before, too. It is no stranger that we should come back than that we came here this time. The mystery is not that we are spirits, but that we spirits should have bui l t us bodies for a while. That is the miracle: not the leaving of this temple of our holy spirit, but that we who are wholly spirit should have come into this body house at all. Bernard Shaw be­lieves that children choose their own parents for the sake of some part icular lesson they themselves know they need to learn, or because they are nat­urally drawn to them. After all, how did you choose your mate? Was there not a mystery and a miracle there also beyond your conscious control?

We may come back to a par­ticular place or race or limited environment to strengthen our character, just as we know here that obstacles have been a help

to us in the end. For each expe­rience adds some wisdom, ex­pands our vision a little more. Life after life, perhaps, we gain more compassion and tolerance, show more kindness and mercy, possess a more understanding heart. Where may we better learn it than here, among suf­fering mankind? It is said that great souls are ancient souls; that some voluntarily return to help humanity. Jesus asked his dis­ciples, "Whom do men say that I am ?" For many believed him to be one of their prophets re­incarnated. His name Jesus was that of Joshua, with more mod­ern spelling; and some thought Joshua to nave been the great high priest Melchizedek come back on earth. Joshua did mir­acles also, and was a great spir­itual leader of his people.

In our own time there are authenticated cases of those who came back. Not alone in India, but in Canada, England, Australia, there have been chil­dren who have unquestionably recognized parents, homes, friends, localities, of their for­mer incarnation. Their present parents were puzzled; tests were were made, the records are authentic; they were scientific-

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ally proved. These are of course exceptional; hut perhaps we do not as a rule come right back, or not to the same locality. W h y is it that so many White people have A m e r i c a n I n d i a n "guides"? Why, for instance, is my mentor said to be Chinese? I love and admire the Chinese people more than most Occi­dentals, and I recognize Con­fucius as a forerunner of Jesus — he who said, 500 B.C.: "Do not do unto others what you do not want them to do to you." Did I live in China generations ago? Who shall say?

Strange, is it not, that so many who believe in life here­after have not the same belief in life heretofore? If life is contin­uous, eternal, why should it have just begun here in this one life for me? It is not so with the tree, the rose, the cloud, the raindrop. W e are all part of the same great process of unfold-ment into a finer awareness. This, surely, is not the first time nor the last time we shall be here. W e have lived and loved too well on earth to leave it all for some remoter heaven. We may not "go" anywhere. We may prefer to stay here, at least for a while. We cannot find any

heaven unless within ourselves, first. W e cannot go to it unless we take it with us.

Yet the frustrations which troubled us so here, the inhibi­tions which scarred us so ter­ribly as misunderstood chil­dren, these wi l l be set free by some grander fulfillment later. We can lose nothing worth while; we shall gain much. We may progress after a little rest and review to some better plane, or after we have helped humanity more here. Or per­haps some great souls come to us on earth from finer planets to help mankind, and we at length ascend there to learn larger les­sons. Surely, this tiny planet in the smallest of observable solar systems is not the only place in infinite space where the Crea­tor placed intelligent life. How could the divine creative Prin­ciple be content to express His infinite love and wisdom in this insignificant corner of the uni­verse alone? The astronomers are not yet sure whether Mars in our own solar orbit may not harbor intelligent life, though naturally differently formed than ours, to meet the atmos­pheric conditions there. The

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straight lines crossing at right angles, which widen when the Martian polar icecaps melt in summer, are more akin to en­gineered canals than they are to Nature's irregular mountain chains or rivers. Soon we shall know.

Tomorrow morning we shall awake again with all our per­sonal characteristics intact Nothing wi l l have been lost from them in sleep W e shall be the same identically as when we lost consciousness a few hours before; a little better, we hope, less tired, less irritable, but essentially the same old Me and You. Whether we have been traveling all night by plane or train, and wake up in Miami or Rio, W e shall still be Us. Change of location cannot change us. But change of

thought can. W e can leave hell right now, and make a heaven of earth, if we follow Jesus' teaching. How many will?

Many mansions: eternal ex­pansion, from glory unto glory, plane above plane. You are for­ever You: a perfect idea of In­finite M i n d , a beloved child of your heavenly Father, a spirit of His Spirit. And we shall be as happy, surely, as the wind that blows on a bright May morning through the pine trees, or the rippling brook that hur­ries through deep woods forever in song towards the sea, or the granite cliff that greets the sun high on a mountainside. W e shall be well and prosperous, for God wil l be with us still. N e w beginnings , another chance; but You will always be You.

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The Easter Look Gladys (

E W C L O T H E S at Easter are an appropriate symbol of newness of

life. They will give you a sense of well-being that is important to the ego. They will give you a New Look. But they will not, however stylish or expensive, give you the Easter Look.

The New Look is something you put on. The Easter Look is something you experience. The first brings a changed appear­ance; the second brings a changed life. The New Look conforms to the dictates of fashion; the Easter Look con­forms to the dictum of Divine Law.

The Easter Look is not something you have; it is some­thing you do. It is a look with­in that discovers the Great Light and rolls away the stone of ignorance and limitation from the imprisoned splendor of the Spirit.

The Easter Look throws a

:oin Lent

new rainbow of promise across the sky of your life, and you see both past and future with clear eyes. It puts new energy in your work, a new certainty in your faith, a new song in your heart—because it tells you who you are. Ancient words come alive in your mind, no longer mere intellectual con­cepts but thrilling truth made flesh in your experience: " i A M T H E R E S U R R E C T I O N A N D T H E

L I F E . " . . . " M A D E I N HIS I M ­

A G E A N D L I K E N E S S . " . . . " T H E

K I N G D O M O F G O D IS W I T H I N

Y O U . "

The New Look is the hand­maid of the temporal. It is util­itarian as well as ornamental. It keeps the wheels of industry turning, provides new patterns for that eternal and infinite sub­stance which is ever flowing into form in the world around us.

The Easter Look ministers to your spirit. It changes the

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world of your relationships. It will not give you a new car or a new dress or a new hair-do, although these may follow. It will give you a new under­standing, a new outlook, a new disposition. And by some secret alchemy of the Creative Spirit within you, the Easter Look will change your face in a way that the New Look never can, for it will leave its unmistak­

able autograph upon your countenance like the mellow glow in the sky after the sun has dropped out of sight.

The New Look in any year is the child of change. It be­longs to Today and is the pre­destined casualty of Tomorrow. The Easter Look began in a garden on an early morning two thousand years ago and be­longs to Eternity.

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A Pointed Story

SET'S H A V E F U N with an rw idea. Let's take a man J with the farthest-reach-

ing-mind-in-the-world. I'd say, "Let's take Professor Einstein" but we haven't his permission, and besides, for the purpose of our idea we must have a six foot two inch man weighing about 250 pounds, a real hunk of a man with a mind which can think of a million light-years and know what they mean; a man who can take a mathematical figure with so many zeros attached that it looks like a lariat rope, and can whirl it around his head in circles, loops and figure 8's and not get tangled in it. This man must not only be far-minded, but broad-minded, because we

are going to do something un­dignified with him. We'd bet­ter just invent him.

Let's look at our massive hulk of a man with the farthest-reaching - mind - in - the -world. His thoughts are way out thereeeeeeeeee, about a mil­lion light years away from earth, visualizing some celestial item beyond the farthest be­yond. Now, let's take the point of an embroidery needle, be­cause it's about the smallest thing that we can visualize and still hold in our fingers. It's several trillion times smaller than our man.

Let's jab the point of the needle, not too hard, into (let's see . . .), well, let's jab it into the tip of his big toe, because,

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in order to think easier about that celestial item out there a million light years, he has taken his shoes off. I'll bet he yells or jumps or says ouch or some­thing appropriate, even if he is a man - with - the - farthest -reaching - mind - in - the -world. With a speed faster than light he brings his thoughts back from beyond beyond to that point on the end of his big toe where that embroidery needle point made contact with a nerve end.

In less than a second every ounce of that big man is con­centrated on that tiny point several trillion times smaller than he is. The muscles are mobilizing for action, the nerves of his body are yelling "help," the healing organiza­tion of his body is Red-crossing as fast as it can — and that is fast. The farthest-reaching-mind is trying to find out what happened and what to do about it. The man's whole im­mediate world is also concen­trated on that needle point, not only the man, but his wife (we'll give him one) and his six children. (We'll give him them, too, and while we're be­ing generous we'll give him

twelve grandchildren and a flock of relatives and in-laws living in the house with him. No wonder his mind is way out a million light years away.)

We're still playing with this idea for a purpose. So, we'll tell the folks in the house that the needle was soaked in some deadly poison which takes just thirty-six hours to kill a man. Let's call it cadaverine, just to make it more gruesome, and build up the idea. Clamor is added to chaos, confusion and alarm because of the infinitely small point of a needle and an idea associated with it. Waves of action spread on and on. This man-with-the-farthest-reaching-mind-in-the-world is very important to the world because it is rumored that he has a plan to save the world, which certainly seems to need saving, and it looks as though his plan would work if he lives!!!

The wife begins calling up people, doctors and fire-depart­ment resuscitation squads and the police department; the chil­dren begin running on urgent errands; the grandchildren con­tribute their bit by yelling their heads off. One of the in-laws

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calls up Gabriel Overheater, who immediately adds the alarming news to his broadcast. The relatives call up congress­men and demand action. The newspapers send reporters and photographers; the radio sends newscasters and Louella Pars­nips; the television people start setting up cameras to record the last gasps of the man-with-the-etc. Pictures of the great man's toe and the needle are put onto telephoto and shown all over the country.

In Paris a great physician leaps in a stratosphere plane and rushes to America with an antitoxin; a chemist in Yoko­hama is snatched up and put on a super-jet-propulsion plane with his antitoxin; all the people who heard Overheater's broadcast begin sending, spe­cial delivery, remedies ranging from snake-oil to potatoes planted in the dark of the moon on the grave of a woman reported by reliable authorities to be a witch.

Radio, television, telegraph, newspapers, chemical labora­tories, and a deaf old lady on the corner who is trying to find out what it's all about, are agog and agag. Our whole earth is

vibrant with alarm, suspense, activity and mobilization of force. All because a tiny point of an embroidery needle touched a nerve-end on the toe of the man-with-etc.

Now to make a long story longer, it is proven that the needle was not dipped in cada-verine, and the point of the needle didn't even make a red spot on the great man's toe. Nevertheless, we've made a point with a point, and the point is this: many men through the ages, because of egocentricity, vanity and lim­ited vision, have not been able, or have refused to believe that there could be an intelligence, a universal consciousness, a god-mind, vast enough to swirl suns, moons and stars in or­derly fashion through illimita­ble and inconceivable space and yet be personal enough to design a gnat's eye, or a spar­row's wing, or hear the small pleas of midget-mite-maw. But there you are; my idea is not fantastic. The whole world could be moved to action, awareness and dynamic thought by a needle point as I have suggested. It's all a mat-

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ter of proportion in thinking of man and a universal Intelli­gence which could run the universe and yet be fully aware of every thought in a man's

Natural History where you might see it today, and my idea of Universal Consciousness is now put in your consciousness where it may help you, if you have doubted, to develop a vis­ualization of our relationship to the Universe and Universal Consciousness.

To finish the story, let's say that the famous needle point was put in the Museum of Un-

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G e n t l e m e n :

P l e a s e s e n d m e t h e 1 0 - w e e k s ' I n t r o d u c t o r y C o u r s e In t h e p r i n c i p l e s a n d p r a c t i c e s o f S c i e n c e o f M i n d . I a m e n c l o s i n g $ 7 J O w h i c h c o v e n t h e f u l l p r i c e o f t h e c o u r s e . It i s u n d e r s t o o d t h a t I w i l l r e c e i v e 2 l e s s o n s e v e r y o t h e r w e e k u n t i l t h e c o u r s e i s c o m p l e t e d .

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A d d r e s s .

C i t y . Zone State.

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Resurrection Contrasted Elsie Grafius

H A T D O E S the Easter message of our scien­tific-religious age

bring us? Does it conform with the story of that first Easter morning? We have many times approached the empty, open tomb of our Savior with an emotional belief. Today we should like an intellectual ap­proach.

We shall start our reasoning with the assertion that we be­lieve the open, empty tomb had a special significance. We be­lieve that a power was demon­strated by Jesus that someday the scientific world may accept as a truth; a power just as im­portant to our advance as was the first appearance of life, or the first emergence of mind.

Jesus realized that the mes­sage he carried must be strong enough to influence man from that time on. His message of the brotherhood of man would have perished had he not demonstrated this equally im­portant message of the preser­vation of personality after

death. It was as if Jesus said, "Look, I am going to demon­strate a truth. I do not under­stand this truth scientifically as it will someday be understood, but I can demonstrate that per­sonality survives death. Not only does it survive death, but it is recognizable by those we really love. So-called death merely brings into being an­other aspect of the same con­sciousness."

Let us go to the tomb of Jesus. What do we see on that Easter morning? Matthew speaks of an angel of the Lord within the tomb. Mark speaks of a young man in a white robe. Luke mentions two men, and John two angels. There is a slight variance here, but we get very definitely from all the gospels that the body of Jesus was not there, and that the angels or visions of light gave them to understand he had risen and had gone before them into Galilee. There is also the matter of grave clothes. John gives us the fullest ac-

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count here. He tells of Simon Peter seeing the "linen clothes lie; And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself."

Let us compare this open, empty tomb with the tomb of Lazarus. When Jesus ap­proached that tomb he said, "Take ye away the stone" and when he had called in a loud voice for Lazarus to come out, he came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. And Jesus said, "Loose him, and let him go." Note in this case the stone had to be rolled away. There was no open tomb as in his own case later on. Lazarus came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. Jesus left his grave clothes neatly folded, the spices still evidently within the laden folds. Lazarus proceeded on his way using the same physical body. Jesus arose with another aspect of body. There is clearly a difference in these two cases, not only in what happened, but in the sig­nificance of the message brought. In the case of Lazarus it would seem Jesus demon­strated his power over death. In the second tomb we find not

only a demonstration of life over death, but a preshowing, if we may use the modern term, of the spiritual body in further development. The res­urrected Jesus was a being of light, sometimes visible to a lesser degree and barely rec­ognizable, as on the road to Emmaus, and sometimes visi­ble with an earthly quality, as when he bade Thomas thrust his fingers in the nail prints. What happened here to make this almost unbelievable story ring down through 2000 years as a possible scientific truth?

Let us go over the ground carefully. Lazarus was raised from the dead. Jesus arose. Laz­arus was raised in the same physical aspect. Jesus arose in a light aspect. The miracle of Lazarus was accomplished from outside himself. The res­urrection of Jesus was accom­plished by some power within himself.

Jesus left no physical body in the tomb. If it were a spirit­ual resurrection how are we going to face the question of the empty tomb? Le s l i e Weatherhead in his book After Death, posits a body that evanesced, dematerialized in

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a short space of time. If this thought is to be accepted we must realize that time was eliminated in changing his ma­terial body to energy in another form. We are not wholly sat­isfied with the picture pre­sented.

Let us think again of that body of the risen Christ — that body seen by Mary jn the gar­den; and on the road to Em-maus, where they knew him not until he blessed and brake the bread. The sudden appear­ance to his fearful disciples when he said, "Behold mv hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye sec me have." The ascension where he was parted from them and carried up into heaven. Our Christian religion is founded on these things. What are we to believe about the risen body which some­times had a material quality and sometimes the quality of light? Can we believe that it was but a different aspect oi the same Christ?

Science today has something to say that may point the way to a scientific explanation. One of the greatest discoveries in the

field of physics in recent years is the Quantum Theory. This theory explains that both mat­ter and light appear sometimes as waves and sometimes as par­ticles. Matter may prove to be radiation moving with a speed less than light. It may be noth­ing but congealed radiation traveling at less than normal speed. Matter and radiation may be interchangeable forms of waves. The annihilation of matter may be the unbottling of imprisoned wave energy, set­ting it free to travel in space. The scientist adds that no gen­eral principle yet known can tell what behavior either mat­ter or light will choose in any particular instance.

This is a glimpse of the wave theory. We may reason from these statements that our bodies may be in reality bodies of light, and that the difference between a material body and a light body may be due to the speed at which the wave trav­els. A glimmer of understand­ing seems to flash from this page of twentieth century sci­ence to that first Easter morn­ing. Did Jesus demonstrate two thousand years ago a truth that modern science is now uncov-

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ering? Was his resurrected body at times, radiation mov­ing with the speed of light? Could his body have been radi­ation moving with a speed less than light when he said to Thomas, "reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side.. ."

These are searching ques­tions. Jesus, the Christ, seems to be the forerunner of modern science. There are many steps

to be taken in both scientific and religious research. Science never states anything as final. Religion should never state anything as final. Both fields are in their infancy, but con­tinue to draw closer together. Today we can say with some assurance that we have found an intellectual approach as well as an emotional approach to the empty, open tomb of our Savior.

Material taken from The Mysterious Universe, by Jeans; Physics and Philosophy, by Jeans, and Scientific Theory and Religion, by E. W. Barnes.

T H E ETERNAL SON In Thee, O Christ, Thou Blessed One, I find both Father and the Son; In Thee there is one life alone Eternal sower, seed and sown; In Thee I find the promise given, Light of the earth and crown of Heaven!

Hope undimmed, Vision bright, Untouched by darkness and the night, 1 lift my life above the cloud; My soul uncaught by bier or shroud Shall go beyond earth's brightest star To where Thy many mansions are.

— E R N E S T H O L M E S

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The Elements of Character Christian D. Larson

Lesson 11 in The Field of Practical Psychology

yT\s H A S been said, one of the important ends

^ i ^ i and purposes of mod­ern practical psychology is that of the discovery of the present degree of development of the several mental and emotional traits, qualities, and faculties of the individual, by analysis self conducted or else conducted by others; the classification of such data, and the subsequent delib­erate process of developing, un­folding, and cultivating the desirable and positive qualities, and the deliberate process of restraining, inhibiting, and re­stricting the undesirable and negative qualities. These sev­eral stages of the general proc­ess constitute the work of Char­acter-Building.

By "character" is meant "the peculiar mental and emotional qualities, or the sum of such

ualities, by which a person is istinguished from other per­

sons.' Another definition is "the nature of the individual,

manifesting in and as the con­tinuity of his various successive voluntary and habitual acts." Still another is "the essential principle of the nature of the individual which governs and decides his habitual mode of ac­tion, and which therefore ex­presses and manifests his indi­viduality."

The original meaning of the term, "character," was "a stamp, mark, or s ign, engraved or stamped"; and when the term was applied to the sum of the mental and emotional qualities of the individual the same gen­eral implication followed it, i.e., the i d e a of s o m e t h i n g "stamped" upon the mind or soul of the person w h i c h marked him as being soand-so or such-and-such. From this and similar conceptions arose and developed the idea that a per­son's "character" was something stamped upon him at or before birth, and which could never thereafter be m a t e r i a l l y

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changed. In this v iew, the of environmental influence "character" of the person had rather than an opposing factor, been impressed upon him by The new psychology performed the creative powers of life, and an important task when it he was bound to carry it with added to the list of influencing h i m pract ica l ly unchanged factors the important factor of throughout his entire life. This will-power, view was a more or less dis- Heredity is "the heriditary guised form of fatalism, and it transmission of physical and undoubtedly has resulted in the psychical characteristics from failure of many persons to un- ancestors to descendants." fold, develop and cultivate their Luther Burbank says: "hercd-characters, and thus "make the jty means much, but what is best of oneself." The modern heridity? Not some hideous an-practical psychology offers a far cestral spector, forever crossing better and a more encouraging the path of a human being. He-and helpful view. redity is simply the sum of all

Modern practical psychology the effects of all the environ-holds that the "character" of the ments of all past generations on individual is the result of three the responsive ever-moving life-fundamental and basic factors, forces.' Another authority says: viz., (1) heredity, (2) environ- "Much that goes to make up ment, and (3) will-power. The our character is derived from old psychology and the old phi- the associated qualities and im-losophy held that heredity and pressions of many generations environment were the sole fac- of ancestors. Inasmuch as the tors involved; and there is a individual contains within him record of centuries of dispute the transmitted qualities of concerning which of these two nearly every individual who is the dominant factor — a dis- lived several thousand years pute which was adjusted only ago, it may be said that each by explanation of Herbert individual is an heir to the ac-Spencer, i.e., that heredity is cumulated impressions of the merely the result of the effects race; these, however, form in of the past environment of the an almost infinite variety of race, and is therefore a phase combinations, the result being

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that although the root charac­teristics of the race are the same in every individual, yet each individual differs in character combinations from every other individual. There are no two characters exactly alike. . . . Yet all individual characters are composed of the same basic ele­ments, the differences resulting from different arrangements and combinations of the ele­mental universal factors."

From the above, you will see, perhaps for the first time, that your hereditary elements and influences contain the best, as well as the worst, and all the degrees that lie in between. Special and particular combina­tions and arrangements of these elements undoubtedly give one a set trend, or tendency toward certain lines of thought, feel­ing, and conduct, when the stimuli of appropriate environ­ment present themselves; but these tendencies, trends, and inclinations may be overcome or neutralized by the employ­ment of scientifically directed will-power — they may be neu­tralized, inhibited, and counter­balanced by the presentation of other tendencies and trends, brought forward and developed

by the will of the individual. As an authority has said: "The de­termined will may oust from the throne of character those elements of heredity which seem to be objectionable, and may supplant them by the more desirable elements which abide in the subconscious or instinc­tive regions of the mind and which are merely awaiting the call or demand of environment or will."

The following widely-quoted statement from the teachings of the late Professor Reuben Post Halleck, on the subject of the determining factors of charac­ter, serves to bring into plain view the several influencing elements, and to indicate the values of each. Professor Halleck says:

"Character is the resultant of several factors — will, heredity, and environment. Let us take an actual case to represent these at work. Shakespeare was born of parents who could neither read nor write. There was some­thing in the boy more than either of them. A part of that additional something was due to his will, which, by always acting in a definite way, often in the line of the greatest rcsist-

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ance, gave him stability when others were wavering like reeds in the wind. Unlike Marlowe, Shakespeare was not killed in an alehouse, although he must have felt promptings to waste his time and nervous force there, as did so many of his fel­low dramatists. In resisting these tendencies, in putting the best of himself, not into revels, but into his dramatic work, he acquired character. That hered­ity was not all in his case is shown by the fact that he had brothers and sisters, who never climbed the heights with him. His limited earlier opportu­nities show that environment was not all that made him; environment did not make Shakespeares out of others born in that age. There was will­power in him that rose above heredity and environment, and

fave him a character that readies forth in every play. 'There has been a tendency

to over-estimate the effects of heredity and environment in forming character; but, on the other hand, we must not under­estimate them. The child of a Hottentot put in Shakespeare's home, and afterward sent away to London with him, would not

have given the will sufficient material to fashion over into such a noble product. We may also suppose a case to show the great power of environment. Had a band of gypsies stolen Shakespeare at birth, carried him to Tartary, and left him among the nomads, his environ­ment would never have allowed him to produce such plays as he placed upon the English stage. Heredity is a powerful factor, for it supplies raw materials for the will to shape. Even the will cannot make anything without material. Wil l acts through choice, and some kinds of en­vironment afford far more op­portunities for choice than others. Shakespeare found in London the germ of true theat­rical taste, already vivified by a long line of plays. In youth he connected himself with the theatre, and his will responded powerfully to his environment. Some surroundings are rich in suggestion, affording oppor­tunity for choice; while others are poor. The will is absolutely confined to a choice between al­ternatives.

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environment. A man cannot choose his parents, but he can, to a certain extent, determine his environment. Shakespeare left Stratford and went to Lon­don. He might have chosen to go to some insignificant town where the surroundings would have been uninspiring. In mid­dle life a man's decisions repre­sent his character. He will be swayed by the resultant force of all his preceding choices; in other words, by his character. What has the will to do with character? Character is largely a resultant of every voluntary act from childhood to the grave. We gradually make our char­acters by separate acts of will, just as the blacksmith by re­peated blows beats out a horse­shoe or an anchor from a shape­less mass of iron. A finished anchor or a horseshoe was never the product of a single blow. A man acquires 'character' by sep­arate voluntary acts.

"We apply the term 'con­duct' to those actions unified into a whole, which relate to the welfare of the self, either

directly, or indirectly through the welfare of others. We are coins, the metal of which has been dug from the mines of our own inborn intellectual and moral faculties by the will­power. If we properly work those mines, we may find metal enough to justify a stamp of a very high value. On the other hand, though there is much un-mined metal beneath the sur­face, we often form a character marked with a penny stamp. It may be true that circumstances stamp us to a certain extent, but it is also true that the way in which we use them stamps us indelibly."

Modern practical psychology has discovered an effective way by means of which the three elements or factors of character, i.e., heredity, environment, and will, may be harnessed and made to work effectively in the direction of Character - Build­ing, or the art of "making one­self over." Such knowledge makes man, at least to a great extent, the "Captain of his Fate; the Master of his Soul."

There is nothing more beautiful than a soul which has realized its true identity.

— HORACE W. DWLNELL

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Samaritans Anonymous Charles Carson

N E DAY as I was walk­ing up a hill to the Hospital of the Good

Samaritan to visit a friend, I began idly to wonder if there had ever been any bad Samari­tans. If there were, it seems we never hear of them. Yet as my thoughts went back twenty centuries I knew that in those days their neighbors seldom thought of the Samaritans as being good people.

The Judeans to the south and the Galileans to the north were in accord in their dislike for those who inhabited Sa­maria. The general feeling of the time was expressed in the words of the woman, at Jacob's well, whom Jesus asked for a drink of water.

The Master was then on a journey into Galilee and had to travel through Samaria. When he stopped at the an­cient well and asked the woman for a drink, she was amazed that a Judean would speak to her, for, she said, "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." But Jesus, whose

principles transcended race and national boundary, conversed with her as one friend to an­other. When his disciples re­turned from the city they "marveled that he talked with the woman," which further emphasizes the sentiment that prevailed at the time.

Then one day something happened which probably seemed insignificant at the time, but was destined to re­store the good name of the Samaritans for readers of all history. Every child who has attended Sunday School knows the story of the man who went down to Jericho and fell among thieves, who robbed him and gave him a severe beating. A priest came by and refused to help him, and a Levite likewise saw him and passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan was traveling through the city, and "when he saw him he had compassion on him."

The Samaritan was journey­ing in a province where ordi­narily he would have feared to speak to a native citizen. But

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when a man is without money, and literally "half dead," he isn't too particular about the nationality of a friend who of­fers aid. This was the traveler's opportunity, and he bound up the man's wounds, put him on his beast and took him to an inn, and left money with the inn keeper for his care. This is the story of an unnamed man who helped a stranger in need. Because his act was of the es­sence of Christian love, it was related by Jesus, and has come down through the years to re­mind us that a humble man can change the mind of the world when his deed is per­formed unselfishly.

The world has never been without its Good Samaritans, and great things are still com­ing to pass through the efforts of those who practice daily the Christ Principle. A case in point is a man who has helped to change the lives of approxi­mately a hundred thousand despairing men and women, yet his name has never been in the public prints.

It all began in 1934, when a man known as "Bill" lay dying of the disease of alcoholism. He had been a stock broker be­

fore the crash of 1929, but alcohol became his master. When economic conditions be­gan to improve later in the thirties Bill realized, as he ex­pressed it, that "the stock mar­ket would recover but I would not." At other times when he was at his lowest there had al­ways been a glimmer of hope, but this time there was none. He was finished. His doctor had told him so, but he knew it anyway.

Then one afternoon a man he had known in college came to see him. Bill had known him as a heavy drinker, but now he was sober. He told how he had been lifted from the scrap heap and given a new life, after ad­mitting defeat and turning his life over to the care of God as he understood Him.

Bill says that here sat a miracle across the table from him, shouting great tidings. Was he interested in finding what his friend had? Of course, he was interested. He had to be. The man told a simple story of how he had made amends to people he had harmed, became wil l ing to have God remove his defects of character, and now was help-

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ing others, for by giving his blessing away he was able to keep it for himself. He set about in step-by-step fashion to aid Bill in following his path. That Bill followed the path faithfully is attested by the fact that he became founder of Al­coholics Anonymous.

His friend perhaps never thought of putting his ideas into book form and passing them on to countless other suf­ferers. Possibly he was not even capable of doing such a work. But the man who could not help a hundred thousand could help one. He had no way of knowing that the one he carried the message to would light countless torches and dis­pel the darkness from what Bill calls "those caves wherein al­coholics dwell." There is no telling what one candle will do, and Bill's remarkable work would have been impossible except for the call that after­noon from an ordinary man with an extraordinary message.

It isn't always the lot of a Samaritan to change the world, or even a country, for the good one does for an individual has its place, too. When a young Kansas newspaper publisher

found a down-and-out reporter, clothed and fed him and gave him a job, the world knew little of either of them. But the world would learn, because the humane characteristics of the publisher were a part of an in­nate greatness which was man­ifesting itself even then; and the reporter would succeed, partly because a fellowman cared.

The publisher was William Allen White, owner of the Emporia Gazette, and the man he helped was Walt Mason. When I was a child I used to watch for the paper to arrive so I could read Mason's charming Rippling Rhymes, for then the feature was widely syndicated. All through my growing years I followed his column, as did thousands of other readers, but I never knew the story of Walt Mason's rescue from failure until he passed away ten years ago.

Mr. White had faith that Walt Mason could and would make good, and Mr. Mason never once let him down. As I look back now I realize that there rang through all his verse the living gratitude of a man who had been helped by a

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friend and in turn was happy to be a friend to all mankind. No one knows how many people he gave happiness to, an accomplishment made possible through one man caring.

One morning twenty years ago I was in a hospital ward, being prepared for surgery. I took my belongings and placed them in a box for the orderly to keep, for the outcome was in doubt and I was not sure that I would come back to the ward. I had little in those days to sustain me spiritually, and as I lay there waiting I was afraid with the quiet, cold fear of a man who faces danger alone.

Just before the stretcher came for me a ward nurse stepped to my bedside. She took my hand, pressed my fingers gently and whispered, "Don't forget who it was that said, 'When thou passest through the waters, 1 will he with thee." That was all she said. There was no sermon, no dramatics, but at least I had something I could hold to until God gave me an opportunity to learn more.

I began to believe those words and when I went into

the surgery I had peace. That night when I regained con­sciousness in a private room, with a special nurse watching over me, I tried to orient my­self. My mental processes were vague, but there kept ringing in my inner thoughts, "I will he with thee." If those words were true, they alone could heal me—and they did.

When I was well I knew that for me the weathering of a crisis was not enough, that I would need a life with fullness and purpose. Today, when I have an opportunity, I drive the thirty miles out there to visit some of the patients. As I walk down the corridors I al­ways vision that little Scottish nurse, who isn't there any more, but whose memory lives in the hearts of all she has known. Surely it was her simple words that helped me to live, and whenever I give a comforting word or pass on a bit of Truth to another, it is then that her deed grows brighter.

She was one of those anony­mous Samaritans who do the best they can for whomever they can, knowing that noth­ing truly noble ever dies.

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If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things

which are above . . . Colossians 3:1

MAUDE ALLISON LATHEM

Ahinking about Easter and the Resurrection, I am reminded of Mark Twain's definition of a weed: "A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been recorded." This is not implying to the thought of the Resurrection the insignificance usually attached to the weed. Rather it is suggesting that we have not as yet glimpsed the full meaning of the Resurrection, so far as we are personally concerned.

The Resurrection was the greatest victory in all history; nothing ever won by man can remotely compare with it. The greatest conquests of history were won by destruction and death, while the incomparable victory won by Jesus was by overcoming this last enemy, death. Have we been guilty of thinking of Easter as cele­brating a man's death? Of all times, Easter is the time to awaken to love and to sing and dance, and celebrate the gift of wondrous life.

But we arc not living up to our knowledge—the certainty that God indwells us—if we are not daily resurrecting ourselves, daily "seeking those things which are above," and this resurrection is not conditioned by prosperity or adversity. In order to rise to a higher life, we have merely to die to our lower standards. There

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is such a Resurrection Now; there is a triumph over death which we may have NOW. In prison, old, and bound in chains, Paul felt this. Even then he knew that he was a risen man. For years, he had turned a deaf ear to all that would drag him down and had sought "the things which are above." The resurrected life is forever an upward life. It is a daily dying to hate that we may be resurrected in love; a dying to lack that we may be resurrected to the perception of God's ever-present abundance; a dying to selfishness that we may be resurrected to the great joy of giving the self. Easter is no celebration for a dead man. Jesus had so resurrected himself day by day that the final Resurrection was but a natural step. We, too, are being regenerated to newness of life. Day by day we are listening more intently to that Divine intuition within us, by which we already know that we are immortal, by which we know that there is Something within us which has never completely incarnated in the flesh.

Science of Mind reiterates the teachings of Jesus and empha­sizes them. And it changes a meaningless life to a definite order. It enables us to reveal to the world, in the character of our lives, that there is a light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. It teaches that God can do for us no more than we expect, but that there is no need of man, no requirement of the soul or body of man, that God is not prepared to supply, on the condition that man has faith that it can he done.

Certainly it is imperative that our belief in immortality be not disassociated from what we make of the life that now is. Certainly, Jesus believed that the life more abundant must come to us day by day, as a natural result of our resurrection—of our effort to seek those things which are above. And our word to you this day is that the Christ makes alive today! Daily he resurrects us from the tomb of failure, doubt and dismay, quickening our every faculty, and filling us with a radiance that shines into the hearts of men. The grandeur of the outcome will repay us a thousand times, and each time that we die to our lower impulses (each time that we "seek the things that are above") we perceive that every act of our life becomes a divine enterprise.

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LIFE ABUNDANT The Easter Season each year is a high consciousness point for everyone in unfoldment of spiritual, dynamic living. It acts to release us from all that binds us and keeps us dormant. Easter brings to each human soul a new impulse to greater livingness.

Everybody enters into Life in degree as he thinks and purposes new and greater Life. To have Life and Life abundant, we must fully accept Life and purpose still more Life. The meditations this Easter month are keyed to the need of everyone, providing a definite statement of Truth for everyone to use. Every one dedicating himself daily to more abundant living by entering into these meditations ardently, speaking these words with heartfelt desire and sincere purpose, will demonstrate the Truth accepted in the medita­tions. The Great Spiritual Law of the Universe is forever activated to release Infinite Good where it is recognized and accepted.

Speak your word with joyous enthusiasm and be expectant of your good. It will be done unto youl

Meditations By STANLEY W. BARTLETT

Dean of College Institute of Religious Science

Los Angeles, California

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SATURDAY, APRIL FIRST

Golden Key: "EXPECTANCY"

Looking into the Reality of Life I realize that I have a mission to perform, a responsibility to discharge. In my livingness, I enter into the Creative Process. I expect my good to manifest. I expect each day to demonstrate greater livingness, more of health, happiness and harmony. I am using Intelligence in my affairs, Unlimited and Infinite, therefore the results of my use of Intelligence are unlimited and unconditioned. My actions are harmonious and rich rewards result. My transactions are successful and satisfying.

There is no unconscious desire on my part to limit my good or the good of others. I expect everyone to share in my good and my activities of this day will be mutually satis­fying to everyone concerned. I act with zeal and enthusiasm. In my experience of today there is elation and joy so that all weariness or sense of fatigue is avoided. The affairs of this moment and each moment throughout the day are directed and prospered by Infinite Intelligence and I have a warm glow of appreciation for my Oneness with an Infinite Presence.

Each day I have greater understanding and realize more abundant health. My road is clear before me. My pathway is straight. I achieve every purpose because I am expectant of Divine Good.

And, so it is!

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SUNDAY, APRIL SECOND

Golden Key: "PRAISE"

Today I praise the Lord by my application of principles of creative thinking. Praise has great influence in my right thinking. Whatever I praise prospers and flourishes. My affairs unfold and expand under the lifegiving warmth of my praise. I agree with the Psalmist and obey his injunc­tion, "Praise ye the Lord. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord."

My praise carries with it my creativeness, therefore my praise of God involves everything God hath wrought. I recognize joyfully my use of God's Intelligence. I praise the Life Principle by joyful acceptance and eager experience of living. I accept my life as God's Life and enter into It more triumphantly each day. Through praise I count my many blessings. I unify with All Good by consciously prais­ing each phase of my life. Each day is divinely blessed and prospered, and I am conscious of good ever unfolding in my life.

I am praising the Lord in mind and action. I am recogniz­ing the perfection of God's Kingdom as my perfection. I begin and complete my work in a spirit of joyousness with a song of praise in my heart and words of appreciation upon my lips. Abundant good surrounds me. I see every activity as the action of God, and through praise, I am inspired to conscious union with All that is Good. I claim that Good in this consciousness.

So may it ever be!

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MONDAY, APRIL THIRD

Golden Key: "COMPLETENESS"

I am aware of the completeness of the Divine Order and my completeness in that Order. I recognize that all ideas are of God, that I have access to Infinite Intelligence and I use that Intelligence to provide the perfect demonstration. What I purpose, that I shall perform. I am living my con­structive ideas out into expression so there is no such thing as failure for me.

I am continuously expressing my ideas. Each day I express more of Wisdom, more of Life. Today is good, but tomor­row will be even better. My goal for today is achieved, and my goals of the future will be attained. There is no incom­pleteness in my experience and no sense of frustration. I am walking forward with certainty, with belief, and with a realization of my completeness and my power to attain every objective. I handle each task with sureness. I am capable and alert. I am endowed with ability and I accom­plish my purpose.

I am aware of the Power of Mind and the certainty of the great Creative Law. With ardent desire and definite purpose I have ability to perform each task with skill and complete success. The reward in all my activities is abundant supply and greater livingness. My every relationship and activity is harmonious, constructive, rewarding. I live satis-fyingly with my thoughts, my emotions and my deeds. I am whole, sound and complete. And it is good!

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TUESDAY, APRIL FOURTH

Golden Key: "FAITH"

Today I enter into greater consciousness of the Law of my Being. I am aware of myself as a Son of God with Creative Power using a Law utterly responsive to my thought. I am putting complete reliance upon this activity of Mind. I do not worry nor am I concerned about condi­tions and events, because I make conscious use of the Great Law. I choose to rightly use the Creative Process by thinking clearly about my desires and purposes. Observing the Law, I find the results gratifying. I have dominion and power.

I have faith in the Principle of Health. I recognize abundant health is possible for me as a Truth of my Being, therefore I demonstrate physical well being. I feel good because I recognize good health and good feelings as Truth —the Law provides the effects, I provide the casual in­fluence. Faithfully, I think of perfect health and the Law responds by being faithful to the pattern of health.

I have faith in the Law-governed nature of the Universe. I recognize its perfection, its harmony, its regularity. I do not permit doubt or confusion to disturb this faith. My faith delivers to me healthful, abundant living.

I am an unlimited creature with ability, wisdom, power and steadfastness of purpose. I am faithful to the idea of unlimited consciousness, therefore my good is unlimited. I keep the faith! And it is good! Textbook: Page 160

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL FIFTH

Golden Key: "PEACE"

I am established today and every day in the center of peace and harmony. My mind is at peace. My emotions are peaceful. My body is a kingdom of harmonious adjustment and peaceful activity. I am demonstrating the Principle of Peace, thus my thought and action embody peaceable in­tention and peaceful activity.

My earnest desire is to add to the peace and harmony of the universe. I want to subtract nothing from it. My con­sciousness is filled with ideas of wisdom, giving me counsel, direction and guidance. I am led to speak the right word and do the right thing in the right way, so that everything I undertake is prospered and leads to achievement.

Under Divine Guidance I am contributing to the welfare and harmony of others. All inharmony is avoided. No one wishes me ill or thinks toward me other than in a spirit of love and helpfulness. My every activity fits into a pattern of harmony. Everyone with whom I come in contact responds to my spirit of peaceable intention and purpose, and blesses me to success and happiness.

My affairs are peaceful. My own nature responds to the idea of peace. My body is peaceful. Every function and activity reflects my peace of mind. My emotions are calm and serene. Every sense of hurry and strain, every tension disappears. I am secure, safe and sound. I am harmonized and stabilized in the Peace of God's Nature.

So may it be, always!

Textbook: Pages 264 and 265

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INSPIRATION FOR THURSDAY, APRIL SIXTH

Golden Key: "DEVOTION"

Today I am consciously devoting myself to the idea of Truth. I am thinking of the Nature of God and realizing that I represent God and reproduce all that is Universal. My devotion to the ideal of Truth is an inner compulsion toward greater livingness. I achieve more abundantly by delivering more service into the universe. I seek ways of using Intelli­gence in all my affairs. I search for opportunities to intelli­gently act and skilfully perform. My devotion to Truth leads me ever in the direction of effectiveness and increased efficiency.

I am devoted to ideas of fairness, equity, mutual under­standing and common purposes. These are Truth ideas and I seek to use these ideas more and more in all my affairs. Since my nature is identical with God's I am free from all bondage. Unhappiness and disappointments cannot touch me. Illness is foreign to my nature. In Truth I am healthy, wealthy and wise. I think of health and strength. I am well, strong, capable and alert.

My devotion leads me to think in terms of abundant living. I am in the midst of abundant activity, returning to me rich rewards. I have exerything I need and can use properly. I believe in abundant living, and experience it daily — hourly.

And it is good!

Textbook: Page 106

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

FRIDAY, APRIL SEVENTH

Golden Key: "UNITY"

I am today taking time to recognize the unity of all things and all people. The universe is an harmonious whole and all things are in a Unity of All, therefore this unity includes me. All that I am is unified with All that Is. I am One with Life, Love, Wisdom, Joy and Beauty. I no longer recognize any apartness or aloneness, for I am One with the Allness of God.

In my recognition of Unity I acknowledge that I am in God and God is in me. There is Personalness of God to me, within me. Since all of God is everywhere present, then All that God Is must be present where I am. What God is must be within me. I am health, happiness and suc­cess. I am Intelligence and harmony. I am unlimited Life.

In all my activities I enter into every thought, every ac­tion, consciously unified with God, with God's Substance and God's Creativeness. My awareness of this Truth in­fluences all my actions and conditions, all my affairs. I am Divinely prospered and live in peace. I am established in the very center of the Divine Order and am unified with Life and the Creative Activity of the Universe.

My actions today reflect Divine Good, and success crowns my efforts. Unified with God I am invincible, victorious, triumphant. I am in partnership with my Father, and my word is His Word; His Word is my word!

And it is good!

Textbook: Pages 121 and 493

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INSPIRATION FOR

SATURDAY, APRIL EIGHTH

Golden Key: "HARMONY"

To harmonize my body, my affairs, I tune in with the Infinite. I consciously turn my attention to an Infinite Order since I recognize that my creativity is released in the direc­tion of my attention. I dedicate my thoughts this day to Infinite Harmony, knowing it permeates, influences and ad­justs all my activities. I see myself in the center of Infinite Harmony. I see this harmony outmoving from within me into all my affairs. I know this harmony brings right ad­justments and satisfactory settlements. I am aware that harmony prospers my affairs, therefore I speak only words that harmonize the activities of this day. People and condi­tions about me respond harmoniously because I radiate harmony.

In order to radiate harmony in all my affairs, from the inner depths of my being I act to demonstrate experiences of harmony. My thoughts, my desires, my purposes are good. No friction, no discord can enter into my experience. I am completely and wholly identified with an Infinite Order that is perfect, complete. Consciously I recognize the har­mony underlying all the laws of creation. I understand it as rhythmic, harmonious action, therefore I adjust to it mentally, emotionally, physically. I am synchronized and harmonized.

And it is good!

Textbook: Pages 186-187

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

SUNDAY, APRIL NINTH

Golden Key: "INSPIRATION"

Deep within my being there is comprehension of Truth and understanding of the Reality of Life. I am inspired by this Truth to demonstrate here and now all that is Reality. My inspiration leads me to believe in immortality of the soul as Truth of Being. I am aware that I must consciously realize this immortality and make it mine by demonstrating it this moment and every moment. I recognize that whatever I desire, definitely purpose and wholeheartedly accept as possible for me, comes into my experience.

I desire abundant life and I am conscious that Eternal Life flows through me. I am in the very midst of Life. It is mine now. I am in It and It is in me. Every part of my being is renewed and rebuilt by Spirit in this conscious recognition of Life Abundant as mine this moment.

I devote myself to thoughts of greater life. I turn away from every unhappy and limited experience of the past and contemplate the newness and freshness of life. I awake each morning to greater realization of Eternal Life. I experience It now, and tomorrow still greater realization of Truth awaits me. I am illumined. I am enlightened. God is a God of Livingness and I recognize Life as a Truth of my Being. I attain conscious immortality as I demonstrate Life and use It, therefore I release myself into the activities of this day and of each day to come in full understanding that I am joyously delivering myself each day into Life Eternal. God Is. I Am! I express.

And, it is good!

Textbook: Pages 335 to 337

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INSPIRATION FOR MONDAY, APRIL TENTH

Golden Key: "JOYOUSNESS"

This is a day of joyous accomplishment. I enter into it with zest and enthusiasm. Life is good, Wisdom is mine. My task is easy and my burden light. I am thinking of the affairs of today with joyful anticipation. Everything to be experi­enced today is part of a pattern of Divine Good, and there is nothing outside of this Good. Each individual with whom I come in contact is a joyous person. I recognize him as a Son of God, therefore my brother. I anticipate his cooper­ation and helpfulness. Cordial and mutually agreeable de­velopments prevail in all my dealings with people. My joyous acceptance of Truth, conditions my affairs and pros­pers my every endeavor.

I release my body from tension and strain. Freedom of action and harmony of being give me realization of health. This vehicle I use to express Life is perfect, whole, complete. It is Divinely organized and performs with complete and perfect action. Every cell is inspired by my consciousness to do its work in the right way, functioning with absolute harmony. Joyousness of mind and spirit gives me aliveness and youthfulness of body.

My joyous acceptance of life gives me a new outlook. I see my world perfectly and walk through the events of this day with enthusiasm. I am aware that life is good, that I am expressing Infinite Life more perfectly each day. Each hour this day greater good comes into my experience and I know this process carries forward in all the tomorrows to come. Infinite Joy is mine.

And, it is good!

Textbook: Pages 482 and 530

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

TUESDAY, APRIL ELEVENTH

Golden Key: "BELIEF"

I demonstrate daily my belief in the power of Good. I believe there is an Infinite Orderliness in the universe, that the Creative Law is responsive to my thought, and I am a center of this creative action. Being a part of this Good, I live courageously and unafraid. My life is good. My life is orderly.

I believe in a universe of creative thought. I accept the availability to me of this Creative Process and recognize my potentiality for greater livingness. I speak my word now that my life contains everything that makes for harmony, health, happiness and prosperity.

I accept for myself at this moment health of body and perfect use of Mind. My belief in the Creative Law out-pictures in my experiences of each day more of Life, and all forms of greater good. Therefore, I may picture my good and accept it now.

My belief provides certainty and definiteness about life. Living becomes to me daily achievement in scientific think­ing. Each day I consciously declare my good into form. I speak my word for health, and happy, joyous living. I claim this good and give thanks for it. And, the Infinite Law-abid­ing Process of Creativity responds to my thinking and pro­duces for me the effects I declare are mine. I believe in a Law, and this Law responds to me.

It is good, very good!

Textbook: Page 38 and paragraph 3 of 317

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INSPIRATION FOR

WEDNESDAY, APRIL TWELFTH

Golden Key: "COURAGE"

Today I am giving my attention to the idea of courage. I choose the way of courage rather than a path of fear. No longer am I timid, uncertain or afraid. I realize all nega­tive reactions are based upon lack of knowledge and failure to appreciate the true nature of the self. This moment I recognize the self of me to be unlimited and unconditioned, an Infinite Self, identified in the One Infinite Self of All. I am endowed with ability to think and there is an immediate response to my thought. I therefore recognize myself to be courageous, strong, reliant, capable and competent.

I use the power of Mind to accomplish my purpose. Clear, definite and purposive thought is my right, my obligation. I decide and dare to do this. I have the courage to look deep into the nature of the universe and see Reality. The past is dead and gone. Now I dare to look at the Truth of Life and accept it as mine. It is Truth that I am alive, alert, capable and powerful. Right thinking provides me health, abun­dance and joyous living.

I am released from every limiting thought. I am estab­lished in a state of mind befitting a Son of God. I speak my word for health and prosperity, with courage and right thinking. I walk confidently, courageously through the events of this day and the days to come. I choose my good by right thinking.

And so it is!

Textbook: Pages 16 and 162

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

THURSDAY, APRIL THIRTEENTH

Golden Key: "KINDLINESS"

Realizing that my attitude toward life is the demonstra­tion of my inner thought, I contemplate today the perfect attitude of mind toward my fellowman. I am established in a Unity of the Whole. I am one with everyone that is and All that Is. I am not apart from people. I am in the very center of Life and Life's Activity.

The people with whom I come in contact are inspired to greater livingness by the very Truth to which I respond. Everyone is walking along the path of unfoldment with me, and I recognize my unity with them. Together we respond to the harmonious rhythms of the universe. Together we want to be and act harmonious. Everyone, therefore, is my friend. Everyone is helpful. Every person I contact inspires me to greater livingness. My need to unify with life causes me to be helpful to others. I act in kindly fashion. I demon­strate kindliness. Constantly I seek to be more friendly. I think friendliness, helpfulness, and I act kindly toward everyone.

I choose this day to realize the life-giving newness and freshness of kindly living. The Universe cooperates with me and I cooperate with It. I take the key of friendliness to open the door to triumphant living. My harmonious adjust­ment to life is complete and gives me warmth of feeling. Friendliness is akin to Godliness, hence I live this day as a child of God, kindly and friendly to all.

So may it be, always.

Textbook: Page 475

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INSPIRATION FOR

FRIDAY, APRIL FOURTEENTH

Golden Key: "ENTHUSIASM"

This is a day of Divine Livingness. I dedicate myself to perfect use of my creative thinking in all my affairs. Every activity of this day is influenced by Divine Inspiration. I am in God-Consciousness. My ideas are God's Ideas, and I release them in my activities with joyousness, thankfulness and enthusiasm.

It is Truth that I am unlimited, unconditioned. I am a free agent in a great universe of creative activity. I enter into this activity with tremendous feeling. I am imbued with a realization of strength, health, power, and I sense the im­portance of entering into the activities of each day with joy and enthusiasm. I do not hold back nor stand aloof. I meet people joyously. I do things gladly. I am well, strong, creative. I have power, dominion, purpose and significance.

Consciously I am aware of my relationship to God's great plan for the universe. I am needed and necessary. I have significance and importance. My activities are a part of God's Creative Process, and demonstration of my creativity gives me power and joyous living. Today I demonstrate health, strength, vigor and ability. I am inspired, joyous, and enthused. Life is for me an adventure in good thinking.

And, so it is!

Textbook: Page 184, paragraphs 1 and 2

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

SATURDAY, APRIL FIFTEENTH

Golden Key: "MASTERY"

In my livingness of the Divine Principle of Life I recog­nize my need for mastery. I desire and purpose my unfold-ment to mastery over life and all the events of life. I see myself as a Son of God demonstrating the consciousness of a Master. I see the falsity of believing in weakness or limited ability. No longer am I confused. My goal is clear. I am the master of my own consciousness. As a master, I use Creative Law, and the great Law responds to my thought and pur­pose, delivering to me all I believe is mine. I am the master of my circumstances.

My mastership is based upon my recognition of God's Presence and His Law of Mind. In His Presence I am uni­fied, integrated and harmonized. By using Mind, giving direction to my thought, I demonstrate my faith in the Creative Law. I have faith, even as Jesus had faith, in the Law of God.

All Good inevitably must be attracted to me because I dwell in the consciousness of Good. I think health, happi­ness and prosperity. I contemplate experiencing life abun­dantly and it comes to pass. My use of God's Law of Creativity gives me strength and power. I am alert, capable and competent. I master my own consciousness and thus demonstrate mastery over the events and circumstances of life. I am the spiritual man, continuously remaking and re­molding the physical man, and all that we call material. I know the Truth and the Truth sets me free.

And, so it is!

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INSPIRATION FOR SUNDAY, APRIL SIXTEENTH

Golden Key: "WORSHIP"

Today I serenely surrender myself to the worship of God. I am aware of God's Universal Presence and His Infinite Power. I understand God to be everywhere present, there­fore within me. His Omnipresence gives me realization of Wholeness and harmony. His Omniscience provides me with intelligence. This All-Knowing Father functions through me with intelligent action, thus I am intelligent, have con­fidence, courage, stability and poise. Then, too, my aware­ness of God as an indwelling Omnipotent Power releases me from all limitation of thought and leads me to accept my own creativeness.

In this consciousness I am inspired to release my creative­ness and attain the fulness of life. I am a vehicle for Divine Purpose—every activity is an achievement of right purpose and good intention. I select my thoughts and rule my actions in a spirit of worship. My task becomes easy, my burden light. I work in conscious Oneness with God, and dwell in peace and harmony.

My body is well, strong and filled with energy. I think success and I am successful in all my endeavors. I am un­conditioned! The Lord is in His holy temple. All that is limited and conditioned bows down before Him. In the glory and majesty of triumphant consciousness I live this day as a Son of God. I and the Father are One.

And, it is very good!

Textbook: Pages 362 and 363

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

MONDAY, APRIL SEVENTEENTH

Golden Key: "UNFOLDMENT"

This day I am renewed in the spirit of my mind. I put on the new man. I am the new man. I am resurrected from everything that is negative into all that is positive. I accept the idea that whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of thought and takes outward form in new creation. Therefore I conceive myself to be renewed, transformed into the newness and freshness of God-like being.

I am a selfconscious personality, living in a stream of Eternal Life. From this stream there is no turning. I am always progressing, ever unfolding. I joyously identify my­self with this constantly expanding, growing and unfolding process. Life is for me an experience of healthful, happy living. I accept ideas of aliveness, alertness, intelligent ac­tion and great accomplishments. These ideas I choose to demonstrate in my life, now and each day to come.

I am released from everything that binds and limits me, into new freedom of thought and action. I am unhindered, unbound. I am alive, strong, healthy. My body is whole, well, sound. I accept Life—Life Eternal. This is a day of new livingness. I have power to achieve triumphant living. It is a day of joyous acceptance of Life Abundant. I live gloriously, today and every day.

And, so it is!

Textbook: Page 371

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TUESDAY, APRIL EIGHTEENTH

INSPIRATION FOR

Golden Key: "UNDERSTANDING"

My word today is directed to the development of greater consciousness. I understand the nature of Creative Mind is responsiveness, therefore my consciousness is continually out-picturing in my world of experience and effect. No longer am I satisfied to experience the negative things of life. I am established in new understanding and can envision my perfection, my wholeness and completeness.

I understand that perfect health is a Truth of my Being. I realize too, that success and happiness are in the Divine Plan, that my Father's Work calls me to right-use-ness of His Law of Creativity, so I think health, prosperity and happiness, each day. My good triumphantly expresses in my home life, business affairs and social activities.

I look upon my universe and find it good. All's well with the world and I adjust myself to my world. I am in the midst of plenty and demonstrate abundance. I am in the center of Intelligence and demonstrate intelligent action. I understand my relationship with the One Infinite Harmony and therefore my affairs are harmonized and prospered. I achieve greatness of consciousness, therefore I achieve greatly. My understanding leads me in paths of right-use-ness of Creative Law, with harmony as the keynote of my activities.

And, so it is!

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL NINETEENTH

Golden Key: "ADAPTABILITY"

Today I give direction to my thoughts in order that I may adapt myself to the Divine Order. I recognize that right thinking is my adaptability to Truth. Accordingly, I erase false images of thought and allow perfect ideas to manifest in my environment. I realize that any limitation in my thought is my own inability to see that which is whole and perfect; therefore I now release myself to unlimited thought; daring to reach out to the Reality of the Universe and declare my freedom from all imperfection.

I attune my thought to health. I contemplate health and thus my body is inspired to regular functioning. My body responds to my every idea of health, rhythm, regularity, harmony and right organization—and so I think on these things. I take time to adapt myself to the One Perfect Life. I think of that Life as my life, here and now. I claim It. I accept It, joyously, gladly.

The influence of every false belief is eliminated from my consciousness. Sickness, accident, ill health, have no in­fluence, no power over me, for I am conscious of my son-ship. I am made in the image and likeness of the Father. His Perfect Body is my body. Where he is, there I am. Wholeness and well being indwell me, and I am sound, whole, complete and perfect. I am adaptable, flexible and adjustable. I conform to Truth by thinking about perfection and the One Perfect Life, and I become that to which I imaginatively adapt myself. This Truth I joyously accept, now and evermore.

And, it is good!

Textbook: Pages 196 and 197

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INSPIRATION FOR

THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTIETH

Golden Key: "SELFLESSNESS"

My spiritual work this day is to completely establish my­self in the perfect wholeness and harmony of God's Nature so my creative thought will individualize this perfection in all my affairs. I comprehend the nature of universal thought is All Powerful and wholly unconditioned. Accordingly, in my thinking I move out from within myself to a realization of my unconditioned thought and universal power. I am more than finite person, / am a creative thinker in a universe of power, and I speak a word that is constantly producing the effects I experience in life.

I declare good health to be my Divine heritage and I demonstrate a healthy body. I voice my belief in the abun­dant nature of the universe and recognize that I am in the center of abundant supply. Under spiritual law, I am sup­plied with everything I need.

My ideas are mature. I think in terms of greatness, happi­ness, success and well being. I discover that I am a focal point for God's Creativeness, and that outmoving from with­in me is Divine Power to organize form and establish effect reflecting the good of the universe; thus am I released from all imperfection and insecurity. My life has significance and meaning. I move serenely through the events of each day confident and courageous because I rely upon the God-Self, the Universal Self of me, identified and unified with God.

It is very good!

Textbook: Page 454

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

FRIDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FIRST

Golden Key: "FREEDOM"

Because it seems difficult for me to release myself from the bondage of past experience, I am today devoting my attention to the idea of freedom. In the very nature of Truth I have freedom. I am free to choose the patterns of my creative thought. I have power of imagination and con­ceive myself to be free, powerful, creative, successful, pros­perous, well and strong. I build images in my consciousness of happiness and harmony. Nothing denies me the right to perfect my thought along lines of constructive good. I imagine all that is beautiful, joyous, harmonious and satisfying.

I have the power to discriminate and choose my good. I purpose health and my body is suffused with health. It functions rightly. It is a capable instrument and I recognize it as an obedient servant, a perfect vehicle for my expression of life.

I am free to direct my future. By intelligent thought I prosper my business and achieve my goal. I am skillful and capable, therefore successful in my undertakings. The creative power of Mind completely frees me from all mis­takes of the past. I am free to contemplate my good and to imagine it as mine. Gratefully I observe the results of my creative thought. I have freedom and power to achieve my goal. I accept my freedom of thought as a Truth of my Being.

And, it is very good!

Textbook: Page 108

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INSPIRATION FOR

SATURDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SECOND

Golden Key: "DISCRIMINATION"

Today I choose Right Thinking! Having the tight to discriminate, my choice of thought makes it possible for me to release my creativeness in spontaneous fashion. Knowing that I live in a universe of love as well as a universe of law, I respond to Life with harmonious feeling. I am joyous, happy, inspired, enthused. Life is beautiful! It is avalanch-ing through me with a tremendous surge of vitality, giving me a sense of well being, a realization of power and triumph.

I know that I may choose to think either success or failure, therefore I select the idea of success and apply it to the activities of this day and every day to come. My use of the One Infinite Intelligence gives me right direction and guid­ance. My affairs prosper because I make the right decision, take the right step and speak the right word. I am alert and able. I am capable and handle my affairs wisely. My con­sciousness is a part of an Infinite All-Knowingness that in­spires me to greater efforts and more successful application of my time. I walk the way of orderliness and harmony. Right development and right reward for my activities are inevitable results of my perception and my clarity of thought.

I am unconfused in the midst of confusion. I am unshaken by circumstances and events. I have stability, peace and poise, and attract all that is good because it is the nature of Creative Mind to respond to my state of consciousness.

It is good, very good!

Textbook: Pages 195 and 196

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

SUNDAY, APRIL TWENTY-THIRD

Golden Key: "RESPONSIVENESS"

I realize the nature of Creative Mind to be responsiveness to thought, therefore I use thought consciously and with purpose to create my world of effects. I speak my creative word this day for health, happiness and prosperity. I enter into the casual influence for all Creativeness by imagining my good and definitely purposing it. My thought about this good is persistent, constructive thought. I realize that the responsiveness of Creative Mind to my thought will adjust everything that is inharmonious and make whole and com­plete everything that is limited and lacking. Consciously I use thought to build subjective acceptance of everything desirable and constructive.

My body is renewed and rebuilt to perfect functioning as I consciously think of well being and happy living. I am well and strong. I am possessed of strength and have limit­less energy. I am untiring and unwavering. I perform ac­cording to intention and purpose. I direct my thoughts and actions. Every task is accomplished with ease. I move rhythmically, harmoniously. My body is without tensions. There is no strain, no effort. My body is at ease. It is perfect body.

I am confident, certain, self-reliant and adequate to every circumstance. Today I realize my complete well being — mentally, emotionally, physically. I am responsive to God and God responds to me.

And, it is good!

Textbook: Page 483

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INSPIRATION FOR

MONDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH

Golden Key: "ACCEPTANCE"

Today I determine to accept my own good. I am not apart from God—I am One with Him. I am in His Presence. I feel His Oneness with me. I am unified with Him, therefore my treatment is answered even as I formulate it in conscious­ness. As I perfect myself in right thinking I enter into the kingdom of heaven and experience all that is good and desirable.

I accept the reliability of the Creative Law of Mind. I realize It is immutable and unchanging. It is a Law of cause and effect, functioning always according to Its own nature; thus I am dealing with causation as I think about right human relationships and harmonious conditions. I desire the comforts of abundant living. I desire and purpose health and happiness. I select patterns of successful achievement. I think in terms of success and joyous living. I think of others even as I think of myself, and surround everyone in my thinking with happiness and harmony.

Because I am spiritualizing my consciousness and dealing rightly with Principle I know that my word is dynamic. The image in my consciousness and the desire in my heart have impact upon Creative Mind. Inevitably an effect is produced like the cause. My word is productive. It is dynamic and creative. My prayer is answered because it is scientific and true to the very nature of Creative Mind. I feel the power of this word, therefore I accept it completely and wholly as the Word of Truth.

And so it is!

Textbook: Page 153

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EACH DAY OF APRIL

TUESDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH

Golden Key: "SINCERITY"

In speaking my word of Truth today I am building a con­sciousness of sincerity and belief. I realize my words are words of power. They express my ideas and my patterns of thought. No matter what my past has been, I am now re­leased into purposive, happy living by consciously thinking and speaking out into expression my creative word.

By thought and purpose I determine my experience of this day to be good. I condition every event of this day by declaring I am in the center of harmony and happiness. Everything that affects or touches me comes under the influence of happiness and harmony, so I am expectant of only happy, harmonious experiences.

I am attuned to ideas of health, success and well being. I conceive health to be mine by Divine right. Perfect living­ness is Divine Orderliness, and orderly, harmonious living is my goal and my desire.

My consciousness is serene and undisturbed. I have sin­cere desire to demonstrate good for myself and for my loved ones, therefore my thought is purposive and directive. My ideas originate in the depths of my being. They are heartfelt, and are translated into images by the power of thought. They become effects by the eternal Law of Creativeness. Truly I live in the beneficent shadow of Almighty God.

And so it is!

Textbook: Page 188

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INSPIRATION FOR

WEDNESDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SIXTH

Golden Key: "GRATITUDE"

Meditation is a time of quiet withdrawal from the tensions of life, relaxing into the Stillness and Allness of an Infinite Order. I specialize my consciousness now to realize deep within the self quietude of mind and ease of body. In the very center of my being I am one with all that is orderly, regular, harmonious, peaceful, rhythmical. I am thankful that I live in consciousness, and have a thankful heart, at peace with God and man.

I know my undivided attention to the spiritual unity back of all things gives me a spiritualized consciousness, a body completely harmonized. All that is eternally true is Truth about me, right now. I am steeped in Infinite Love. I realize this and I am joyful, thankful and grateful. My gratitude overflows. I am grateful for my life, wisdom, happiness, prosperity; and I am grateful too, that I am in the center of activity. I am grateful that I come in contact with other people. I recognize with thankfulness that everyone with whom I come in contact is in this same universe of good. I am associated with people everywhere in a common bond of love and understanding. I am joyful as I comprehend the unity of the universe, the unity of all people. I know that my activity is an activity of good. I deny no one his good, and this realization is my joy.

My consciousness of healthful living and joyous antici­pation of greater good coming to me calls forth a feeling of thankfulness to God for the life and wisdom that is mine now and evermore.

And, so it is!

Textbook: Page 447

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EACH DAY OF APRIL THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SEVENTH

Golden Key: "FRIENDLINESS"

My purpose this day is to realize the friendliness of the universe and demonstrate that friendliness in all my affairs. I declare my freedom from all ideas that limit and condition my life. I am released into the Divine Order of harmony and good. I realize the unity of all people and all things. I no longer need be suspicious, timid or afraid. My con­sciousness is attuned to trust and therefore I come in contact with trustworthy people. I trust myself and my universe so I am at peace within myself and at peace with everyone. I art with friendliness and every activity is a loving expres­sion of my creativity.

Reflecting my inner peace, my body is stimulated and inspired to perfect right action. Every function is normal, rhythmic, harmonious. My affairs are harmonious. They prosper because I deal with friendly people and my actions are harmonious. I condition every activity of this day by speaking this word of harmony and friendliness.

I experience a lovely existence within my own conscious­ness, therefore I reflect in my life experiences of joyous friendliness. People are helpful, sympathetic and kindly toward me. I am centering my life in perfect experience by my own right thinking. I give friendship to all and every­one returns friendliness to me. No longer do I strive to get, I am eager to give, because I realize what I am in conscious­ness. What I deliver into the universe as right thought and perfect action cannot avoid returning a hundred fold to me under spiritual law.

It is very good!

Textbook: Pages 297, 298 and 299

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FRIDAY, APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH

Golden Key: "EFFECTIVENESS"

The realization that Universal Truth is available to me to use as I release my creative ideas advances me to new comprehension of my potentialities. I give free rein to my imagination and involve my thinking in the infinite possi­bilities of answered prayer. I realize that God wills us to have everything good—healthful, happy living, harmonious and prosperous conditions. God is a God of abundance, not of limitation.

I recognize that I am in a universe of abundant good and my desire and purpose is to demonstrate this good. Knowing that there is a Creative Law of Mind, I state my purpose into Mind. I speak my word for abundant living. Deep within my heart there is desire to express life triumphantly and joyously. I enter into the right activity and it rewards me bountifully. I deliver intelligence into the universe through my actions and there is right reward for this action.

I believe in the Divine pattern of health for man. I ac­cept this pattern of health and demonstrate a healthful body. Every idea in my consciousness contributes to my well being. I am directed and guided by Infinite Intelligence into the ways of healthful living. I am released into new livingness—a life of health and happiness.

Each day's experience gives me greater awareness of my effectiveness. I am efficient in the use of spiritual law. I dedicate myself this day to activities in life that contribute to the happiness and harmony of everyone. I am an effective instrument, God-Conscious, God-Inspired.

And, so it is. Textbook: Page 458

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SATURDAY, APRIL TWENTY-NINTH

Golden Key: "ASSURANCE"

I believe in the Universal Power of the Word of God and in the Infinite Personalness of God. In this conscious­ness I am free from all limitation, and can give direct and definite direction to my creative thought. Leaving all un­certainty and doubt behind, I confidently walk through the experiences of each day knowing that as I speak my word the Law acts for me to produce effects of my own choosing.

Accordingly, I choose to live a life of power with Infinite Intelligence directing me. Harmony prevails in all my affairs. I decide my experiences will be right and just. I accept the idea of my mastery over conditions, leaving nothing to chance, experiencing that which I purpose. My affairs prosper because that is my intention. My body is healthful because I choose to demonstrate perfect health. I have a quiet certainty and strong conviction in my belief about the Law. It works for me as I use It; therefore my thought is clear and undisturbed, definite, dynamic, power­ful, creative.

My environment responds to my specific and certain thinking. It is the perfect environment. I select it in Mind and purpose it deep within my heart, therefore the Law responds to me and I experience All-Good. I have power to make decisions—right decisions. My affairs prosper and I am successful in all my undertakings. I am confident, cou­rageous and undisturbed by outer effects. I am living tri­umphantly with God. I am dwelling in God-Consciousness and all is good.

So be it, now and evermore. Textbook: Page 211 (last paragraph)

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SUNDAY, APRIL THIRTIETH

Golden Key: "CONTEMPLATION"

Today I am daring to believe that man re-enacts God— that the conscious mind is the Spirit of God individualized. Therefore I consciously enter into communion with God by contemplating the perfection and harmony of His kingdom. I contemplate the self of me existing in the very center of God's peace, harmony and abundance. I am filled with joy as I accept these images of thought. My personality unfolds as my thought reflects itself into actuality. I behold myself in a new dignity, with power and significance.

Perfect peace is for me all of peace I can envision. My body is peaceful, my affairs tranquil. I contemplate healthful living and I am renewed of body. I feel an inflow of strength and vitality as I contemplate the One Perfect Life and declare that It is my life right now. I discover that my consciousness abounds with new ideas as I contemplate an Infinite Intelligence flowing through me. I am released into the fulness of happy, joyous living by contemplating the joyous and perfect expression of limitless potentialities.

The kingdom of heaven becomes to me an idea of prac­tical living wherein each expression in life is the reflection of Divine Intelligence. I dwell in the Kingdom. I am joyous and happy because I contemplate the Divine nature of man and the limitless possibilities of Consciousness. I am part of a pulsating, living Reality that demonstrates where I am as life triumphant. Accordingly, I live, and move and have my being in conscious unity with the Source of All. The Father and I are One.

And so it is! Textbook: Page 196

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The Parents' Science of Mind Clinic

Willa Fogle

C T ^ R E Y O U having some be-havior problem with

C i U A your child? Would you like to know how to handle it metaphysically? If so, write to the Science of Mind Magazine, giving the details of your problem, and it will be discussed in this column at some future date.

One of the problems submit­ted for analysis has to do with a child's practicing on a musical instrument. How may we, through a metaphysical ap­proach, develop in a child the right attitude toward "practic-mg ?

The mother submitting this problem, states: "My boy is twelve. Basically, he is a splen­did child, but, like many chil­dren of that age, has a great deal of inertia. That, plus a stubborn disposition, makes it hard to guide him. He has taken music lessons a part of each year for several years, but has always rebelled against

practice. He has not begun les­sons this school year, because I felt that the practice under coercion had profited him but little. I want him to begin les­sons again, however. He has considerable talent. How can he be made to resume piano lessons and practice faithfully without coercion? It is not that he dislikes music, but he has set his mind against practice."

When we are dealing with any parental problem, meta­physically, we go quickly to a consideration of specific uni­versal principles. So let us an­alyze this case and see what principles apply in this particu­lar problem.

This mother is to be congrat­ulated, in that she has recog­nized that discipline is to be administered as guidance. This is one of the basic principles, and underlies all correct pa­rental attitudes.

This mother has also realized that if guidance is the principle

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to be used in administering dis­cipline, there can be no sug­gestion of coercion in the dis­cipline. The question, then, is how to persuade the child to practice without using coercion.

The mother feels that be­cause her son likes music and has talent, there should be some way to help him prepare for an expression of it. Is there a way to make him practice, without making him practice?

We can guide a youngster, and we can treat for him, but we must also release him! And an attitude of release in this case would express in the par­ent as a willingness to let the child make his own final de­cision about his music! In other words, if, over a considerable period of time, the youngster did not respond cooperatively to guidance and treatment, the parent should be willing to let him drop his pursuit of music.

Sometimes, a child is started in music when he is too young. He thinks he wants to take lessons and urges his parents to let him start. But if the grind of practicing is not matched by ever-increasing in­spiration, his enthusiasm may fade to disinterest. When he is

older, however, he may be ready to dig in and make some­thing of his music.

Even when the child is older, it may solve the problem of practicing to let him drop lessons for a little while and devote this interval to a devel­opment of ideas which may inspire the child musically. He might be taken to concerts or shows where he would see the results of arduous practicing. Or he might be encouraged to read of the lives of successful musicians, developing the idea that music can be a tremen­dous joy and power in a per­son's life.

If parents are ever confused as to the difference between guidance and a discipline that smacks of coercion, they need only remember that guidance is always inspiration. We in­spire the child to constructive activity.

As the parent draws the child's attention to the advan­tages of practicing, the good results, he should also be treat­ing for the youngster, knowing that the child "awakens to the deep sense of harmony within him, and to the realization that

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he has the power to express harmony, in spirit, in mind, and in body. That all avenues of his expression are open to the outpouring of inner har­mony." In this treatment, the parent is not trying to influence the activity of the child; he is revealing the child's true na­ture of being, and allowing the youngster to interpret this Truth in his own way! The child will sense the treatment. It will express as the word of Truth through him. Knowing this, we must be willing to ac­cept the interpretation he gives it.

Even when a youngster practices of his own accord, he should be given the support of

treatment. And a word of en­couragement always helps. He may make a lot of mistakes, but praise should not be withheld. Every child needs a pat on the back for trying!

Children, like many of us grown-ups, are rather lazy. Many of the constructive things they do (going to school, for instance) they do because they have to. It takes a "heap o' inspirin' an' treatin'" to get them to practice. If, with all that, they still don't cooper­ate, it means they have not chosen music as their expres­sion. And realizing that they are spiritual beings, we must allow them their divine right to choose.

All that is in harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or late for me.

—MARCUS AURELIUS

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. —J. M. BARR1E

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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A Hobby With Words Grenville Kleiser

LIZABETH and I have a d i v e r t i n g h o b b y that might aptly be called,

"Gardening in Words." W h e n we see a word significantly used, i n a book, magazine ar­ticle, or editorial, we note its meaning as given i n a diction­ary and proceed to plant it in our minds as a gardner plants his seed in the soil.

As wife and husband we are i n c o r d i a l a g r e e m e n t a b o u t words, their power for good or evil , and how they can be made to express infinite shades of thought and feeling when used with skill and discretion.

It is only when one comes to consider words — just words alone, apart from literary style — that one realizes the vastness of the s u b j e c t , the i n f i n i t e variety of these little cogs in the wheels of speech, their nice ad­justment, their delicate grad­ing, their precision and their power.

There is no need to search for unusual, high-sounding or peculiar words in order to ob­

tain a reputation as a good con­v e r s a t i o n a l i s t , or e v e n as a writer. T h e English language contains an abundant supply of ordinary, simple words which, if carefully chosen and correct­ly applied, suffice to express al­most any meaning, idea, or shade of thought.

Naturally there are, i n addi­tion, many words of greater length or rarity, which it is equally permissible to employ w h e n o c c a s i o n ar ises , since these words fulf i l l a special mis­sion that no other words can a d e q u a t e l y discharge. T h e y have a subtle shade of meaning peculiar to themselves; there may be, and there are, syno­nyms which closely resemble them; but there is always a slight difference. It is this dif­ference that only the diligent student of words can detect, and it is all-important.

T h e other evening, when a heavy snowstorm had clothed the outdoors with an ermine mantle, and we were seated

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before a cosy log fire, Elizabeth handed to me some notes she had made during the day in ref­erence to words, which read:

"Some words transport us to the skies, others plunge us into abysmal gloom; some hold un­disputed sway like absolute sovereigns, others do only menial service; some stab as with a dagger, others soothe like a mother's caress; some have the ingratiating modesty of a high-born maiden, others intrude like an unbidden guest; some sing in the memory like the lingering note of a nightin­gale, others haunt the mind like an ominous decree.

"Some are like living person­alities, others like dim mem­ories of bygone days; some are like the dance of animated sunbeams, others like the sigh

of mournful pines; some are like a beacon light, others like a flickering candle; some are like a quivering image on water, others set as a face of flint; some are like a symphony of the stars, others like jangling notes out of tune; some are as hot as a fiery volcano, others cold as a winter blast.

"Some are as soft as a whis­pering breeze, others loud as a cannon-peal; some are as gay as a troubador, others dull as a brooding sky; some are as nimble as dancing water, others heavy as a weary footstep; some are as beautiful as the rosy flush of dawn, others ugly as a venomous toad; some are as def­inite as the glance of a child, others as vague as a fitful dream."

I assented.

// is a good thing to believe, it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; and as a man, by in­dulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admiration and enthusiastic reverence for excellence impart to ourselves a portion of the qualities we admire. —MATTHEW ARNOLD

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BEYOND It seemeth such a little way to me,

Across to that strange country, the beyond; A n d yet, not strange, for it has grown to be

The home of those of whom I am so fond.

They make it seem familiar and most dear, A s journeying friends, bring distant regions near.

So close it lies that when my sight is clear I think I almost see the gleaming strand,

I know I feel those who have gone from here Come near enough sometime to touch my hand.

I often think, but for our veiled eyes, W e should find heaven right about us lies.

I cannot make it seem a day to dread, W h e n from this dear earth I shall journey out

T o that still dearer country of the dead, A n d join the lost ones so long dreamed about.

I love this world , yet shall I love to go A n d meet the friends who wait for me I know.

I never stand above a bier and see The seal of death set on some well-loved face,

But what I think, "One more to welcome me, W h e n I shall cross the intervening space

Between this land and that one 'over there'; One more to make the strange beyond seem fair ."

A n d so for me there is no sting of death, A n d so the grave hath lost its victory.

It is but crossing with a bated breath, A n d white, set face — a little strip of sea,

T o find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Annual Congress

The First

The First A n n u a l Congress of the International Association of Rel ig ious Science Churches is history. What a growth i n the S p i r i t of U n i t y has taken place. N o w we are t h i n k i n g and counseling, one with the other, that the right S p i r i t be expressed; that the purpose of the Church Organization be definitely that of presenting the teach­ings and phi losophy of the Institute of Rel ig ious Science and Phi los­ophy at Los Angeles, and that that purpose shal l be c learly stated. The Institute is to conduct the College and provide the curr icu lum, and then the Churches, through their accredited ministers and teachers, w i l l teach and p r o c l a i m this phi losophy to the w o r l d .

The f o l l o w i n g ministers were ordained: D r . W . H e n r y M c L e a n , Santa M o n i c a , C a l i f o r n i a ; Rev. Betty Bassett, H a y w a r d , C a l i f o r n i a , and Rev. P a u l a M . Scott, San Anselmo, C a l i f o r n i a . Rev. E m i l C. H a r t m a n n of St. L o u i s , M i s s o u r i , who was detained at the last minute by weather conditions, could not be present, but was ordained by D r . R a y m o n d C. Barker i n St. L o u i s on January 22nd.

A l l but six of the Churches were present to receive their new Charters i n the International Associat ion of Rel ig ious Science Churches. The service of ordination and presentation was closed with these words of dedication:

" L e t us turn to that Div ine Presence wi th in , with joy and thanks­g iv ing for the great idea which underlies this organization of which we are proud to be a part. Let us here and now dedicate our highest efforts, and consecrate our lives, to the ultimate ful f i l lment of this idea. F o r this great idea, then, we do give thanks, and we go forth f r o m this place dedicated and consecrated to the task of spreading it wherever we go u n t i l it encircles the globe. A n d so it i s . "

Charles Kinnear, Executive Sec'y INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

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Armor, Reginald C. — DU 8-2181; Res. VE 8-4280.

Armstrong, Edith — Of. DU 8-2181; Res. OL 1237.

Bartlett, Stanley W. — DU 8-2181; Res. OL 8986.

Briegs, Victor York—DU 9-9928. Wednes­days.

Clark, Winifred C—Of. DU 9-7268; Res. DU 2-5041.

Chadwick, Idella M.—Of. DU 9-9129; Res. DU 4-0190.

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YOrk 1990. Bradshaw, Margaret — 763 S. Ogden Dr.,

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CE 2-8700, Res. RE 2-9503.

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0956. Harris, Linda — 1131 So. Bronson. Tel.

WY 8466. Heald, Josiah E. — Hotel Figueroa, 939 S.

Figueroa. TR 8971. Heflin. Nellie Walsh — Res. TH 5170. Hemphill, Esmus—3425 W. Adams Blvd.

RE 2-8516. Hylton, Lavinia Twyne — 1932 S. Hobart

Blvd., RE 5367. Julievna, Inga — 1601 No. Normandie. By

appointment. Tel. NO 2-5443. Kerwin, Grace — 1957 Vestal Avenue. NO

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DU 8-2181; Res. 4239 S. Hobart Blvd., AX 8045.

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4941. Metty, Eve — 747 So. Stanley Ave., YO

4951; Of. DU 8-2181. Murray, Frankie — 620 S. Crescent Heights

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AX 3-4274. Palmer, Charles H. and Jennie May—1639

E. 40th PI. AD 1-9085. Reynolds, Betty — 309 S. Hobart Blvd. DU

4-3486. Ryerson, Lucille K. — 953 W. 7th St. MI

0451. Schmidt, Obelene—1631 W. 20th St. Tel.

RE 8297. Semmel, Kurt W. — 538 So. Kenmore,

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PL 5-6637. Wilkerson, Harriet — 268 S. Norton Ave.

WA 4109. Williams, Jennie Frances—1247 So. Wind­

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Carlson, MayBelle Claire — 1516 N . Nor­mandie Ave. OL 1793.

Clark, Harriett—2014 N . New Hampshire. NO 5753.

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B A K E E S F I E L D , CALIFORNIA Coltrin, Walter T. and Eleanor R. — 1302

Quincy St. 3-9458. B E L L A VISTA, CALIFORNIA

Gregory, Erna L. — 228 S. Atlantic Blvd. ANgelus 3-5048. B E V E R L Y HILLS, CALIFORNIA

Larson, Christian D. — 357 S. Maple Dr. CR 1-0879.

BUBBANK, CALIFORNIA Carson, Pauline—632 Hollywood Way. Ret.

CHarleston 8-1373. McCall, Z. Fay — 638 E. Santa Anita. CH

6-0627. CORONA D E L MAR, CALIFORNIA

•Bean, Anna E. — 621 Marigold Ave. Har. 2783W.

DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA Brown, Jennie Davis — 10612 Clancey Ave.

Tel. TOpaz 2-8665. By appointment. EAST PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

Bamhart, Ethel — 482 Woodward Blvd. SY 3-0848. E L CENTRO, CALIFORNIA

Glidden, Gracelynn—660 Orange Ave. Tel. 569J.

•Authorized Study Group

E L MONTE, CALIFORNIA •Lambert, Ruth Rea — 215 Lexington Ave.

FOrest 8-5518. McCormick, Viola — 203 E. Bryant Rd.

FOrest 8-2205. F U L L E R T O N , CALIFORNIA

•Nelson, Gertrude J. — 321 N . Pomona Ave. Wed. 8:00 P.M. Tel. Anaheim 2375.

G L E N D A L E , CALIFORNIA Hewitt, Richard—524 Fischer St. CI 3-8188. Holman, Lora B. — Citrus 1-4423 or CI

3- 9270. Lester, Ruth A. — Citrus 3-1395 Loomis, Frank R. and Ethel F. — 2004 Bel

Aire Drive. CH 0-1189. Penland, Maud Speir — 345A Salem St. CI

4- 1501. Vars, Florence C — 635-A W. Stocker St. •Wilcox, Flaurabelle S.—620 N . Maryland.

Citrus 2-5113. Williams, Nadia — 511 So. Glendale Ave.

Tel. CI 3-1213. HAYWARD, CALIF.

Baldwin, Helen — 1029 "A" Street. Tel. Lucerne 1-8603. Res. Glencourt 1-8473.

Bassett, Betty — 1029 "A" Street. Lucerne 1-8603. Res. Pleasanton 4416.

Hill, Gene—1029 "A" Street. Tel. Lucerne 1- 8603. Res. Pleasanton 4416.

HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIF. Boyd, Dorothy E. — 6327 Seville Ave.

LUcas 3723. Scofield, Anita—2563 Clarendon Ave. Of.

LA 9517; Res. JE 5068. INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA

Browne, Agnes E. — 1309Vi No. La Brea. ORchard 2-4020.

Longe, Jesse V. and Hazel C. — 1019 B . Fairview Blvd. Tel. OR 8-2480. L A CRESCENTA, CALIFORNIA

Chaffee, Sally and Clifford — 7541 Valmont St., Tujunga. FLorida 3-4107.

L A JO I. LA, CALIFORNIA •Addington, J. E. — 6341 Dowling Drive.

GLencove 5-3549; Of. JAckson 1539. Wed. 2 P.M. La Jolla Woman's Club, Silverado at Prospect.

LAKEWOOD VILLAGE Prowten, Edna V. 4433 Whitewood Ave.

Tel. Long Beach 525-21. LONG B E A C H , CALIFORNIA

Cameron, May — 440 East 9th St. 610-325. LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA

Gerlacb, Sue Ann — R. 1, Box 15. Tel. 190-J. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.

Dunbar, Esther Loucetta — 12755 Hortense St. SUnset 2-8875.

Holtz, Bessie Stacy — 6325 Bellaire Ave. SU 3-5509.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Gifford, Elmer M. — 1452 Alice St. TE

2- 7500; Res. 5924 Chabot Crest. OL 3- 3274.

Gordon, Maxine — 2338 Waverly St. GL 1-4029.

Hammond, Norma — 1452 Alice St. TEm-plebar 2-7500; Res. KI 8999.

Hopper, Lillian—1452 Alice St. TE 2-7500; 12050 Broadway Ter. PI 5-2715-W.

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Directory of Religious Science Practitioners Norris, Docia W. — TE 2-7500. 1452 Alice

St. j PI 5-2870-W, 416 McAuley. P A C I F I C P A L I S A D E S

Browne, Mrs. Elsa—1120 Embury St. Tel. Santa Monica 579-18. P A L M S P R I N G S , C A L I F O R N I A

Fendrich, J . Lowrey — Warm Sands Vil la , C /o Margaret Manasse. Tel. 3775.

Spence, George F.—1411 Ramon Rd. 9870. P.O. 760.

P A L O A L T O , C A L I F O R N I A Blakesley, Lou — 1049 Noel Dr. DAven-

port 2-9098. Dodge, Isabel C. — DAvenport 2-2078. P A L O S V E R D E S E S T A T E S , C A L I F . Barnum, Earl D . — 3137 Via La Selva.

P A S A D E N A , C A L I F O R N I A Brown, Jean McTavish—1218 N . Holliston.

SY 4-9033. •Laidlaw, Virginia A . — 256 So. Madison

Ave. SYcamore 2-2494. Larson, Elizabeth and Joseph — 1509 N .

Harding. SY 8-3251. Leonard, Robert C. — 1295 Montecito Dr.

Los Angeles 31. CA 4365. Miller, Lettie A . — 249 N . Euclid Ave.

SY 3-5681. P L A C E R V I L L E , C A L I F O R N I A

Monde, Yvonne — 102 Canal St., 359-J. P L E A S A N T O N , C A L I F O R N I A

•Bassett, Betty — Rt. 1, Box 69 Foothill Road. PL 4416.

P O M O N A , C A L I F O R N I A Moore, Pearl Lady — 400 N . Gibbs St.

LYcoming 2-4004. R I V E R S I D E , C A L I F O R N I A

Harding, Fletcher A . — 3642 Eighth St. Of. 0429; Res. 5093-R. By Appointment.

Taylor, Wydif — 3864 Ridge Road. By ap­pointment. 1727-J.

S A C R A M E N T O , C A L I F O R N I A •Forsman, Mabel — Lenhart Hotel, Mezza­

nine Km. 5. 4-0800. S A N A N S E L M O , C A L I F .

Scott, Paula M . — 74 Monterey Ave. 6519J. S A N F R A N C I S C O , C A L I F O R N I A

Becket, Daisy May — 177 Post St. G A 1-1803. Res. M A 1-3244.

Burrill, Edgar White — T U 5-0809. Of. 177 Post St., Suite 608. G A 1-1803.

Custer, Dan — 177 Post St., Suite 605. YUkon 2-2818.

Gregory, Julia—Rm. 608, 177 Post St. G A 1-1803; OR 3-24S8.

Harris, Catherine—177 Post St. G A 1-1803. Hayler, Mollie—Rm. 608, 117 Post St. G A

1- 1803; Res. EV 6-2333. Heichert, Helen — 177 Post St., Suite 605,

YUkon 2-2818; Res. EV 6-2482. Maxwell, Georgia C. — 177 Post St. Suite

608. G A 1-1803; GR 4-8364. Propper, Edith — 1482 Sutter St. Tel. PR

6-0621. Scott, Paula M . — 177 Post St. YUkon

2- 2818. Res. San Anselmo 6519J. Walls, Frances Archer — Of. 177 Post St.,

Suite 608. GA 1-1803; 1150 Greenwich, OR 3-0341.

•Authorized Study Group

S A N D I E G O , C A L I F O R N I A Addington, J . E. — 1253 University Ave.

JAckson 1539; Res. GLencove 5-3549. Frederic, Del W. — Rm. 412, 441 " C " St.

FRanklin 2952. Moore, Louise Lynn — 1161 Fifth Avenue.

Tel. JAckson 1539; Res. F-6122. Van Hise, Elva M . — 3947Vi Third Ave.

Tel. WOodcrest 2760. S A N T A A N A , C A L I F O R N I A

Dwinell, Horace W . — R3, 1130 E. Collins Ave., Orange. Tel. KImberly 2-8043. S A N T A B A R B A R A , C A L I F O R N I A

Baird, Thomas B.—427 Donze. Res. 1-6506. Of. 127 W . Ortega. 2-3459. S A N T A M O N I C A , C A L I F O R N I A

Hunter, Olive M.—1030 Fifth St., 5-8309. Lloyd, Ethel B. — 804 Yale St. 48312.

S H E R M A N O A K S , C A L I F O R N I A •Houpt, Renee — 4261 Cedros Ave. STate

4-2451. S O U T H G A T E , C A L I F O R N I A

Ferguson, Kathleen A . — 2647 Palm Place. LUcas 6980.

Walp, Blanche Thompson—8134 California Ave. LA 6221; L U 5873.

T U J U N G A , C A L I F O R N I A Cbaffee, Sally and Clifford—7541 Valmont

St. FLorida 3-4107. V A N N U Y S , C A L I F O R N I A

•Arnold, Paula Swan — 14360 Valerio St. STate 5-8179.

Burtis, Warren D. — 16001 Wyandotte St. STate 5-4275.

V I S T A , C A L I F O R N I A Foote, Mabel — Rt. 1, Box 840, Plumosa

Ave. Tel. 9-3671. W H I T T I E R , C A L I F O R N I A

Crouch, Mrs. Y . — 2115 Rose Dr. 4-3809. Pritchard, T. Chester — 602 So. Greenleaf

Ave. 4-3220. W I L M I N G T O N , C A L I F O R N I A

Stowell, Elaine B. — 23703 So. Idabel Ave. TE 4-3690.

T U C S O N , A R I Z O N A Holloway, Winfield — 304 E. Prince Rd.

3-9132. D E N V E R , C O L O R A D O

Allen, Norma — 1425 Washington St. C H 9357; Of. EA 3444.

Andrews, Ethyl — 1018 E. Ellsworth, Apt. 40. SPruce 3432; Of. EA 3444.

Lowell, Helen M . — I960 Bell aire St. EA 2066. Of. EA 3444.

Mayo, Cora B. — Of. 2205 E. Colfax Ave. EA 3444. A . M . only.

Murray, Edith J . — 1540 Washington St. K E 9761; Of. EA 3444.

W A S H I N G T O N , D . C. Grimm, Mae Belle — 4115 Wisconsin Ave.

N . W . Woodley 6500. Wilkerson, W. Scott—1129 Vermont Ave.,

N . W . DI 5998. P E N S A C O L A , F L O R I D A

•Bean, E. Harry — 422 W . Gregory. M I N N E A P O L I S , M I N N E S O T A

Donahue, Stephen J.—4420 Brookside Ave. W H 1347. Of. Belmont Hotel. K E 2141.

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Cords, Louise — 71 Carlton St., ORange 4- 2257.

MONTCLAIR, N . J . Waldenburgh, Katherine M. — 117 Chris­

topher St. Tel. Montclair 2-5420. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

Savarese, John—25 Heller Parkway. HUm-boldt 2-1332. 152 Belmont Ave.

BRONX, NEW YORK Ahles, Elizabeth—1915 Tenbrock Ave. TA1-

madge 3-5447. Henkel, Gertrude — 2100 Eastchester Road.

TAlmadge 9-1063. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Hall, Flora — 641 Macon Street, GLenmore 5- 5762.

Peters, Priscilla—37 Brevoort Place. MAin 3- 3397.

Schmitt, Mary A. — 171 Eastern Parkway. NE 8-2927.

Stringer, Charles H.—921 President Street. STerling 9-0578.

BUF F ALO , NEW YORK Pelly, William — 353 Richmond Ave.,

GArfield 4932. Wood, Margaret A. — 353 Richmond Ave.

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS, NEW YORK

Kaplan, Sadye —76-36 113th St. Tel. BO 8-8640.

Shapiro Manuell Barnett—112-06 71st Ave. Tel. Boulevard 8-0172.

JACKSON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK Harden, Josephine — 35 - 45 78th Street.

HAvenmeyer 4-3800; Ext. 178. NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Barker, Estelle M. — 118 West 57th St. COIumbus 5-7917.

Barker, R. C—Of. Great Northern Hotel, 118 West 57th St. CO 5-7917.

Brehant, Ernest J. — 35 East 30th St. MU 4- 8980.

Brunet, Paul M.—Of. 33 W. 42nd St., Rm. 1701. PEnn 6-4570; Res. BRy 9-7925.

Cassard, Rheba — 105 West 55th St. Circle 7- 6625.

Few, Thomas V . — 227 E. 60th St. TE 8- 7485.

Ingram, Margery L. — 76 Bank St. CHelsea 2-4318.

Morgan, Alice — 230 Central Park West. SChuyler 4-5944.

Parsons, Helen Hart — 871 First Ave. PLaza 5-6524. By appointment—evenings only. Treatment by mail.

Rieman, Evelyn H.—Great Northern Hotel, 118 W. 57th St. Tel. COIumbus 5-7917.

•Authorized Study Group

Science Practitioners Stremm, Naomi W.—145 East 49th St. Tel.

PLaza 5-5253. Wallace, Ethel — 410 E. 57th St. Tel. PL

5-9817. Wardlaw, Mena Noble—225 West 12th St.

CHelsea 3-3136. Williams, Mary P. — 145 East 49th Street.

PLaza 5-5253. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

Kintner, Wesley Wayne — Suite 2E Baptist Temple, 14 Franklin St. Barker 4485; Res. Culver 4879R.

Snyder, E. Lawrence—323 Commerce Bldg. Main 1617.

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK •Carryer, Ruth M. — Science of Mind Cen­

ter, Kenyon Apts. No. 1, 601 So. War­ren St. Tel. 3-7622.

CINCINNATI, OHIO Hastings, Shirley Bell — 3152 Linwood

Road. Ingraham, E. V. — New Thought Temple.

Of. WO 6731. SALEM, OREGON

Stevens, Olive — 495 N . Cottage St. 8636. DALLAS, TEXAS

Polakow, Howard — 508 Fidelity Bldg. E L PASO, TEXAS

•Kaufman, Aileen R. — 4012 Chester St. 5-0143-

HOUSTON, TEXAS Giffin, Don E. — 3017 Wheeler. Lynchburg

9715. Lewis, Abbie Cleaver — 2401 Claremont

Lane, Apt. No. 6. Keystone 3-9253. McALLEN, TEXAS

McLellan, Hattie — 418 No. 11th St. — 1464R.

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON D'Oyly, Fred F. — 311 - 312 Eagle Bldg.

Riverside 4923; Res. MA 6322. D'Oyly, Lois — 311-312 Eagle Bldg. River­

side 4923; Res. MA 6322. WAUSAU, WISCONSIN

Stein, N . S. — 610 Ethel St., Tel. 4169. CASPER, WYOMING

•Green, Mary Burris—536 So. Grant. Tel. 4191.

MONTREAL, CANADA Taylor, Ann — 1461 Mountain St. HA

2991. MT. ROYAL, CANADA

Lewis, Henrietta — 155 Chester Road. Tel. EX 2543. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

•Brunt, Hester — P. O. Box 3553. Tel. 3.0591.

Brunt, Vere—P. O. Box 3553. Tel. 3.0591-

Whatever is past is over, and I'm thinking you have no more to do with it than a butterfly has with the empty chrysalis from which he came. The law of life is growth. —MYRTLE REED

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Directory of Chartered Religious Science Activities I N S T I T U T E O F RELIGIOUS SCIENCE—LOS A N G E L E S 5, CALIFORNIA

Daily Meetings—Institute Headquarters, 3251 West 6th Street D U 8-2181

{ERNEST H O L M E S , Speaker — Fox-Beverly Theatre, 206 No. Beverly Drive at Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.

J. L O W R E Y F E N D R I C H , JR., Speaker — Ebell Theatre, Wilshire Blvd. at Lucerne.

S T A N L E Y W . B A R T L E T T , Speaker — Fox Belmont Theatre, 126 So. Vermont Ave.

Metropolitan Los Angeles EAST SIDE—Charles H . Palmer, Leader-

Sun. 11 A.M., Wed. 8 P.M. 4801 So. Main Street, AD 1-9085.

HIGHLAND PARK—John Derek Edward, Leader—5601 Buchanan St. Cor. Ave. 56. Sun. 11 A.M. Weekday meetings. AL 8100.

HOLLYWOOD—Robert H. Bitter, Leader —7677 Sunset Blvd. (at Courtney Ave.), GR 8033. Sunday and Weekdays.

SOUTHWEST LOS ANGELES — Charles W. Kinnear, Leader — West Ebell Club House, 1717 W. 47th St. DU 8-2181. AX 8045. Sunday and Thursday.

California A L H A M B R A — Carmelita Trowbridge,

Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, 320 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel; Weekday services and all other activities, 507 No. Granada, Alhambra; AT 1-1029.

BAKERSFIELD—Eleanor and Walter Col-trin. Leaders — Sun. 11 A.M. — Thurs. 8 P.M. Women's Club, 2030 18th St., Tues. 2 P.M. Healing. 1302 Quiucy St. Phone 3-9458.

BURBANK—Don Bertheau, Leader—3321 West Olive St. Sun. 11 A .M. ; CHarleston 8-4158.

EAST PASADENA—Ethel Barnhart, Lead­er—736 So. Rosemead Blvd. Sun. 11 A.M. Weekday Services. SY 3-0848.

GLENDALE — Lora B. Holman, Leader — 661 N . Kenilworth (at Patterson), Citrus 1-4423. Sunday and Weekday Services.

HAYWARD — Betty Bassett, Leader — 1029 "A" St., Sunday 11 A.M. Tel. Lucerne 1-8603.

HUNTINGTON PARK — Anita Scofield, Leader—2563 Clarendon, LA 9517. Sun­day and Weekday Services.

INGLEWOOD—Jesse V. Longe, Leader— 501 So. Grevillea (at Lime). Sun. 11 A.M., Thurs., 8 P.M. Tel. OR 8-2480.

LA CRESCENTA — Crescenta Valley First Chapter — Sally Chaffee, Leader; Clifford Chaffee, Asst. Leader — 3604 W. Santa Carlotta (at Dunsmore Ave. 1 block above Foothill) Sun. 11 A.M.-Wed. 8 P.M. Thurs. 11 A.M. Phone FLorida 3-4107.

LONG BEACH—John Hefferlin, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M. Ebell Theatre, cor. Cerritos and 3rd. Weekday Meetings, 440 E. 9th St., 610-325.

OAKLAND—Elmer M. Gifford, Leader— 1452 Alice St., TE 2-7500. Lectures Wed. 8 P.M., Sun. 11 A.M. Oakland Club, 124 Montecito.

PALO ALTO — Lou Blakesley, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., Women's Club, Cowper & Homer Sts. Wed. 8 P.M. 312 Ramona. Tel. Davenport 2-0270.

PASADENA—Elizabeth and Joseph Larson, Leaders—Sun. 11 A.M. ; Tues. 11 A . M . ; Wed. 8 P.M. All meetings 277 N . El Molino. SYcamore 2-2893; Res. SY 8-3251.

POMONA VALLEY FIRST CHAPTER — Pearl Lady Moore, Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. and Weekdays, 400 N . Gibbs St., Po­mona. LYcoming 2-4004.

REDONDO BEACH — Earl D. Barnum, Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. Masonic Hall, 116 Ruby St. Headquarters 503 So. Catalina St. 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Tues., Thurs., Fri. Tel. Frontier 4-8331.

RICHMOND — Craig Carter, Speaker — Sunday and Week-day Services, Y.W.C.A. Bldg., 12th and Nevm. 2208 Emeric Ave. Tel. Beacon 2-4018.

RIVERSIDE — Fletcher Harding, Leader — Sun. 10:45 A.M. Golden State Theatre, 3745 7th St., between Main and Market. Offices and weekday activities, 3642 8th St., 210-11 Fluke Bldg.

SAN ANSELMO — Paula Scott, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M. Women's Improvement Club, 167 Tunstead Ave. Thurs. Eve.— Public Library Hall.

SAN BERNARDINO — Fletcher Harding, Leader — Sun. 7 :30 P.M. YWCA Audi­torium, Fifth and Arrowhead.

SAN DIEGO — Jack Addington, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., San Diego Woman's Club, 3rd and Maple. All other activities at 1253 University Ave. JAckson 1539.

SANTA ANA—Horace W. Dwinell, Lead­er—Sun. 11 A.M., Thurs., 7:30 P.M. Ebell Club. 625 N . French St. Tel. Klm-berly 2-8043.

SAN FRANCISCO—Dan Custer, Regional Director — Sun. 11 A.M. Century Club, Sutter and Franklin Sts.—Weekdays, 177 Post St. YUkon 2-2818.

SANTA BARBARA—Thos. B. Baird, Lead­er — 125-127 West Ortega St. Sun. 11 A.M., Thurs. 8 P.M. Tel. 2-3459 2-6506.

SANTA MONICA — W. Henry McLean, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., 1003 Wilshire Blvd.

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See Drive. Sua 11:1$ A.M., Tues. 7:30 P.M. 826 Panorama Drive. WH 4-3809.

Arizona PHOENIX—I)wight O. Benton, Speaker—

702 North First St., Tel. 8-5154. Sun. 10:30 A.M. Vista Theatre, 215 N . Cen­tral Ave. Wed. 8 P.M. Chapter House, 702 N . First St.

TUCSON — Winfield Holloway, Leader — 304 E. Prince Kd., 3-9132. Sunday 11 A. M. Sunday Forum 8 P.M. Tucson Women's Club, 317 W. Alameda.

Colorado DENVER—Orlando Wanvig, Leader, Cora

B. Mayo, Asst. Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. Aladdin Theatre; Study, 659 Williams; Of. EA 3444.

Idaho BOISE—Gertrude McFarland, Leader—Sun.

Services 11:30 A.M., Owyhee Hotel, Blue Room: Classes 2:30 P.M., Tues. 8 P.M. Wed. Hdqrs. 401 Bannock St. 3151-M.

Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS—

1936 Colfax Ave. South, Kenwood 2 1 4 1 . Missouri

ST. LOUIS—Emil Clifford Hartmann, Lead­er—Sunday At Weekday Services, 4024-30 Lindell Blvd.

New York BUFFALO—

Pelly, Wm. A., Leader—Fillmore Room, Hotel Statler. Sundays; Parlor " G " — Thursdays, Study. 353 Richmond Ave. GA 4932.

NEW YORK—Raymond C. Barker, Leader —Town Hall. 123 West 43rd St. Sun. 11 A.M. ; Hdqrs. and Weekday Services, Great Northern Hotel, 118 West 57th Street. CO 5-7917.

2nd Chapter; Paul Martin Brunei, Leader —Hotel Gotham, Ball Room, 55th St.

and Fifth Ave. Sun. 11 A.M. and Thurs. Eve. lectures 8 P.M. at Gotham Hotel. Hdqrs. 33 W. 42nd St. PEnn. 6-4570.

ROCHESTER — Kintner, Wesley Wayne, Leader — Suite 2E Baptist Temple, 14 Franklin St. Baker 4485. Res. Culver 4879R.

Ohio DAYTON—Shirley Bell Hastings, Leader-

Dayton New Thought Temple, 24 Graf­ton Ave.

Oregon SALEM — Olive Stevens, Leader — 495 N .

Cortage. Phone 38636. Sun. 11 A.M. Women's Club, 460 N . Cottage.

Texas DALLAS—Howard Polakow, Leader — 508

Fidelity Bldg.. 1000 Main St. Sun. 11 A.M. ; Wed. 8 P.M.

McALLEN — Hattie McLeUan, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., 8 P.M. Healing Medita­tion, Tues. 2 P.M. 418 No. 11th St., Tel. 1464R.

Washington SEATTLE—1st Chapter; Clyde F. McNeil,

Speaker—Sun. 11 A.M., Wilsonian Motel. 47th and University Way. Tel. EMersou 8843.

SPOKANE — Fred F. and Lois D'Oyly, Leaders—Sun. 11 A.M., 4th and Stevens Sts., Of. 311 Eagle Bldg., 506 W. River­side. Riverside 4923.

Canada MONTREAL — Henrietta Lewis, Leader —

1461 Mountain St., Apt. 26. Harbour 2991. Public Lectures as advertised. Classes Tues. and Thursday.

South Africa CAPE TOWN — Hester Brunt, Leader —

614 Groote Kerk Bldg. Ph. 3.0591. Pub­lic. Lectures weekday Hofmey Theatre. Sunday Rondebosch Town Hall. Aft. and Eve. Classes Monday, Tues. and Wed.

Above Chapters are authorized to teach accredited classes in Religious Science, the Science of Mind

Contact your nearest Chapter for Class Schedule

It is a good rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness or speaking a true word or making a friend. —RUSKIN

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