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Four years ago, after eleven years of constant coughing and gradual decline, I weighed about ninety pounds, my cheek-bones stood out, my temples were sunken into great hollows, my hands were almost transparent, my complexion like a piece of parchment. When my friends entered the room I could often see plainly written on their peering, questioning countenances,—"Is she dead?" In four and one-half months from the time above stated, I weighed 132½ pounds, my complexion was clear, I coughed but little, and felt perfectly well, though at times, there was still in my throat a rattling sound which gave my friends much uneasiness.

" The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. " Jesus spoke thus, striving by parables to open eyes blinded by material belief, to perception of the heaven of spiritual consciousness.

Many who claim to be Christian Scientists at the present time put much emphasis on their opinion as to what Christian Science is, or should be. But one's opinion of the Truth cannot change the Truth; only opinions can be changed.

The present stage of progress in Christian Science presents two opposite aspects, a full-orbed promise, and a gaunt want; the need however is not of the letter, but the spirit. Less teaching and good healing is to-day the acme of "well done"; a healing that is not guess-work, chronic recovery ebbing and flowing, but instantaneous cure.

Mind governs material conditions . —As I read Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," I am conscious of a truth the author did not realize; or if he realized did not express.

In the one, only, Eternal Mind from which and in which exist the universe and Man, organization is the divine order. The mineral, vegetable, animal, and human planes of consciousness are families in which "the lesser idea of himself supports the greater.

The subject of judgment has lately occupied my thoughts, and its meaning has been studied from the Bible and Science and Health. Many assume that we must not judge at all; taking as the basis for this position the words of Jesus, "Judge not," without any reference to their relation to all Truth and to the facts of consciousness itself.

There are two opposite Mysteries spoken of in the Bible;—the Mystery of Godliness and the Mystery of iniquity. Both are progressive in their development.

The two sisters of Bethany both loved Jesus, but their love was manifested according to their different conceptions of him. Martha's anxiety was to entertain the personal man as an honored guest; her thought was for the body, and she was "careful and troubled about many things;" but Mary waited upon him in Spirit; she had chosen "that good part" that should never be taken from her.

The so called Orthodox churches little realize the orthodoxy of the teachings of Science, when tested by the statements of doctrine in the "Apostles' Creed. " Christian Scientists can wholly agree with them.