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THE first services held in the new edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at South and Park Streets were held Sunday morning [August 3] at eleven o'clock. The services were conducted by the First Reader, Miss Downer, and the Second Reader, Mrs.

NOT being personally present at our Communion season in Boston this year, I send my thanksgiving to God in this testimonial of spiritual healing. Brought up in the Lutheran church, I was taught as a child to study the Bible and reverence religious things; but faith struggled against a barrier of human suffering and the idea that God decreed it.

PERHAPS we have all felt that to be alone with God means to be apart from human habitation and association,—in the wilderness, in the primeval forest, on a wide expanse of waters, and that perchance in some such remote spot we might become conscious of a separateness from worldly thought, and a oneness with God, impossible in the crowded haunts of every-day life, surrounded by our fellow mortals. A deeper insight, however, into the things of Spirit, which also includes a keener analysis of human thought and motive, and the claims of error, reveals more than this isolation of body or person as a pre-requisite to true aloneness, or communion with God.

JESUS once asked the Pharisees, who often questioned him,—not in order to learn the truth, but that they might find something by which to condemn him,— "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" Pharisaism cannot discern the Christ, and because of their self-righteousness and hypocrisy it was impossible for them to comprehend the true origin of him who was indeed the Son of God, and when, tracing the belief of human origin, they replied that he was "the son of David," they lost sight of the grand truth that God is the only Father, and that man proceeds from God. Peter, in his reply to Jesus' question, "Whom say ye that I am?" gave a truer, more spiritual answer than that of the Pharisees, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

A Manchester despatch to the Boston Globe says:— "What is believed to be the largest fee ever received by a New Hampshire attorney is said to have recently been paid Ex-Congressman Henry M. Baker of Bow, who was a senatorial aspirant in the contest last winter, which resulted in the election of Henry E.

It is with great pleasure and deep gratitude that I send my testimony to the Journal to tell what Christian Science has done for my wife and for myself. It was four years ago last March that my wife was healed of heart trouble and consumption.

In the April number of the Journal there appeared an article entitled, "How Should the Sick be Healed?" and I would like to tell of an experience that I passed through before I knew of this saving Truth that makes us free. For twenty years my wife was an invalid.

DUALISM is the result of limitation, and will disappear as the unity and infinity of Truth appear. A few illustrations might be given.

I read some practical rules recently, written by a lady of eighty-five years, who had led a very happy, useful life. One of the lines read "Simplicity— Simplicity— Simplicity.

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day, would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are very unnecessary and altogether fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. Believe and love,— a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.