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There is one family where this blessed Science has been the help and stay of mother and little ones for nearly four years. There are five boys, less than fourteen years of age.

A little boy, having become much excited at seeing a drunken man brutally abuse his horse, appeared convulsed with terror. After Christian Science treatment, and restoration to his usual happy condition, he asked,—"What made me better?" He was told that "God is Love, and is always near us; and that if he would remember this, and often think of it, he need not be afraid of anything; that God is our Father, and the children who remember this, and love only to be good, are quite safe in His care.

A call to visit the old home necessitated a long journey, and gave opportunity for observation and comparisons not found in the routine of home duties. A request to conduct a Sunday School after the manner of genuine Scientists, using the Quarterlies, Bible and Science and Health, caused a delay of two days, but gave, also, the privilege of declaring Truth where it was greatly needed, and showing misguided ones the true relation Science and Health bears to the Bible, Christianity, and the world.

Successful living, as understood in Christian Science, and as it has already appeared to me in experience, whenever the illuminating power of Spirit has freshly clarified the mind, is the realization of existence, in the one sense of it, that always attends the reflection in thought and deed, of the "divine Principle of Being" in purity and fullness. By this gracious attending the supremacy of Spirit is perceived to be the one living actuality, because Spirit is seen to be the divine Truth that creates, illumines, and sustains us with its true Light and Life, and is seen to be the divine Love, that, in creating, inspires and warms with its self-existent, living beauty, expressed in demonstration.

Read 1 John, 4th chapter. Since taking up the study of the Bible in the light of Divine Science, the word Love has probably been upon our lips more frequently than at any previous time.

It is an old story of the Scotch Presbyterian who said: "That the devil is bad you can tell by his very name; for, if you take away the d it is evil, and take away the de it is vile, and take away the dev it is ill, so that he is an ill, vile, evil devil!".

A Sermon preached in Chickering Hall, Boston, by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist). Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

When Grant was seven years old he came home from school one night feeling very badly, in belief. His head ached and he was feverish and restless all night.

Little Grace (three years old next December) is a great help to those about her. One day she was bitten on the lip, by some insect, and it soon became badly swollen.

Five year old May had a belief of Diphtheria. After she grew better, her father asked her what she had been having? "Well, first," she said, "I had a toothache, then a sore throat, then I had Christian Science and got well.