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The following article was first prepared hastily as an address for a ministers' meeting and afterwards was written out in full; it has now been rewritten for publication. The religious character of Christian Science is well shown, first, in the circumstances of its discovery.

We clip the following from The Daily Patriot regarding the Easter service at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, N. H.

Section I of Article XXXI. of the By-laws of the Church Manual has been amended so as to read a follows: "There shall be a Board of Education, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, consisting of three members, a president, a vice-president, and a teacher of Christian Science.

One tree cannot grow for another tree, and neither can one person grow for another person or do his problem for him. Some vegetation thrives off other vegetation, but I take it that Christian Scientists and parasites have nothing in common.

The total number of Christian Science churches and societies, here and abroad, is now 663, showing the remarkable increase of 81 during last year. The Christian Science Sentinel furnishes the following authoritative figures relative to the denomination:— The total number of branch churches for the year ending December 31, 1900, was 443.

In the tender story of the Prodigal Son, as told by that old-time physician and metaphysician, Luke, there is a portion of a sentence that has always challenged my attention and demanded careful consideration and study since I have read and studied the Scriptures in the light which Christian Science throws upon them, for the words contained therein seem to me to be pregnant with deep meaning, and helpful to all who are trying to apply the lesson of the great parable practically. In the seventeenth verse of the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St.

It is quite possible we may find "books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. " While seated in my garden plot.

How little we realize what we owe to the past for the things we enjoy to-day. It is wonderful and most interesting to look back and note the changes through which the human mind has passed during the steady and unfaltering tread of centuries, from the beginning down to the present time.

The crimes of the tongue are words of unkindness, of anger, of malice, of envy, of bitterness, of harsh criticism, gossip, lying, and scandal. Theft and murder are awful crimes, yet in any single year the aggregate sorrow, pain, and suffering they cause in a nation is microscopic when compared with the sorrows that come from the crimes of the tongue.

This word Truth seems a mystery to many, when first taking up the study of Christian Science. There should be no mystery about it.