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Christian Science has given me such a sweet and altogether wholesome sense of communion, that I now delight in an ordinance which formerly I neither understood nor enjoyed. Because I did not know the purport of the holy sacrament, I had no affection for it, and the recurring intervals when this solemn event was celebrated, brought only mental confusion and self-condemnation.

Between materialism and all the higher hopes and ideals of our race there is not merely a separation, there is an abyss. By the mud upon its garments materialism always betrays that it belongs to the province of clay; while our higher hopes and ideals carry upon their foreheads a radiance not born of earth, and revealing their immortal origin and destiny.

The  following letter, written by our Leader concerning the attitude of Christian Scientists in Ohio in view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of that State, will be read with great interest. Pleasant View, Concord, N.

I have heard an experienced counselor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict. If he does not believe it, his unbelief will appear to the jury, despite all his protestations, and will become their unbelief.

FROM my earliest remembrance the meaning of the word sin was vague and hypothetical. I was taught that we should not commit sin for fear of eternal punishment.

Our strength grows out of our weakness. Not until we are pricked and stung and sorely shot at, awakens the indignation that arms itself with secret forces.

The first portion of the Scriptures ever printed in English, which was not Wycliff's Bible, but the New Testament printed by Tyndale at Cologne in 1525, does not appear in the catalogue. Of this a solitary fragment exists, in the Grenville library, the printing having been interrupted when it had reached sheet K, and all the rest of the impression destroyed.

LOCKE , in his "Conduct of the Understanding," said, "Truths are not the better, nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency. " This quotation is particularly in touch with the present, when so many from all the religious beliefs are flocking to the standard of Truth, acquiring a knowledge of what Christian Science really means, and coming to an understanding of its "usefulness and tendency.

The wisdom of keeping the First Commandment, that men should acknowledge none other than the one true God, is not questioned by Christian or Jew. It has stood unchallenged as the beginning of true worship, the common starting-point whereat mortals begin their journey toward the kingdom of heaven.

Young Gentlemen:— You have come from far to this ancient seat of learning to find out if possible what is the value and true meaning of life. When the motto of Harvard University, Christo et Ecclesice, was adopted, the truth must have been perceived that education should train the minds of men into conformity with the mind of Christ, so that their lives might therefore be influential in behalf of the Christian church.