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The second coming of Christ is a subject on which one may well meditate on Easter eve. For is it not less an event to be even awaited, —in tremulous hope, or in a glad surprise of believing love,— than it is to be achieved, as the personal responsibility and the personal work of every individual? What can you — what can I, do toward advancing the second coming of Christ on earth? may well be the question of each heart to-night.

WHAT material ceremony can commemorate the spiritual idea as presented by Jesus? Is there any material symbol by which we can show forth the Lord's death till he come? The use of material bread and wine in this attempt of mortals to partake of the body and blood of Christ is only another effort of mortal mind to interpret all things materially. It is easier for mortals to believe in and adopt some mode of water baptism, than it is to understand and live the Truth and Love taught by Jesus, until they too are immersed in Divine Science, and partake of the nature of the Christ-Principle.

" God cures the spirit, and the spirit cures the mind God cures the mind and the mind cures the body; so God ever works along the line of the highest things," said Rev. Emory J.

Beloved Students: I am glad to learn that the officers of the National Christian Scientist Association have thought it wise to further postpone this Convention. At your last meeting my proposition for a long adjournment was to give space for riper lessons, and heart and substance to your next convention.

The following is editorially submitted in view of the coming Easter time. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.

Without any pretense of faith in any doctor who is not regular, and without prejudice to a sincere intention of calling in a thoroughly instructed and expert practitioner whenever occasion demands, it is still permissible to smile amiably at the professional jealousy of quacks. The successful physician, with exceptions which happily are much more numerous than they were, is the most intolerant despot on earth.

Just four hundred years ago was a man brave with the conviction that beyond the finite limitations of human knowledge of the earth, there was a broader outlook for the children of men. His profound studies and experiments pointed to a pathway across the seas to other lands.

The following are extracts from a lengthy essay written by R. Sears M.

When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not  he.

"But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. "—Matt.