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The Communion Service of the Mother Church, which was held Sunday, June 12, will be remembered by all who participated in it as impressively harmonious and helpful. The day was a perfect one, and although no general invitation had been issued and it was understood that a large gathering was not expected this year, nevertheless every part of the auditorium was crowded with eager and expectant worshipers at each of the three services.

" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " What is this truth, from what are we to be freed, and what is it to know the truth? In thinking upon these questions it is clear that a thing must be, before it can be known.

Æsop's fable of "the lion and the bulls" affords a most profitable and timely lesson for Christian Scientists. The fable reads, "Three bulls fed in a field together in the greatest peace and amity.

The Christian Science movement has attained to the dignity of a large and rapidly growing denomination. It has enlisted the interest of individuals who possess average discriminating intelligence and who have been convinced by undeniable facts,—the good results of this faith.

The commonly accepted theory, that man has a dual nature; i. e.

Science and Health says, on page 424, "Seek to be alone with God and the sick while treating the cases confided to your care. " If Christ's disciples can always feel sure that cases confided to their care are really given them of God, they will not be burdened with a sense of their own responsibility or limit themselves in proving that "with God all things are possible," while striving, watching, and praying for that mind to be in them which was also in Christ Jesus.

After completing college and university courses the writer became a natural scientist by profession and is now in active practice. The training in these sciences has proved invaluable, because it has led him to turn from appearances to realities, and seek causes amid effects, as indictated in the following argument which starts with familiar natural science assumptions.

That Christian Scientists attach to certain words a somewhat different meaning from that generally accepted, is a fact frequently referred to by critics of this movement. Our use of the words Mind, Science, reality, and demonstration, seems to be particularly disagreeable to the ordinary critic, although even a cursory study of these words in any of the standard dictionaries would show the perfect propriety of their use as found in all Christian Science works.

The advance of our Cause in the national capital is of special interest, and the Sentinel has already referred to the acquisition of a new church home by First Church of Christ, Scientist. The opening service, February 28, will mark the beginning of a new era of growth and usefulness.

" Growth is the eternal mandate of Mind" (Science and Health, p. 520).