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For the first time since I have known Christian Science, there comes to me now a strong prompting to write my experience. It may not seem a wonderful one to others, but to me it is marvelous.

It would be difficult to find a more concise, and at the same time comprehensive, statement of the teachings of Christian Science, and the aspirations of Christian Scientists, than is found in these four concluding words of Isaiah, 60:19 . What does it mean that our God should be our Glory? Jesus tells us to glorify God, or to do all to the Glory of God, and the Bible is full of allusions to God's glory.

The objection is seriously made against Christian Science that it insists that the universe, including man, is not seen or understood by mortals as it really is. This objection is not only made by the materialist and the atheist, but by ministers of the Christian churches; and the protests of the latter are even more vehement than those of the former.

Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:— "I forget now who it was that once said to me, 'Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?'—True. —'If you fell ill, your wife and children would be destitute?'—True.

In standing here to-day to speak to this large assemblage of earnest men and women on the subject of Christian Science, I should be overwhelmed by the greatness of the task assumed did I not know that the simplest utterances of Truth have behind them such infinite depths of reality that thought needs but be touched and awakened in order to perceive that all Truth, understood, is self-evident; and the task becomes a joy through knowing that at every one of these lectures burdens are lifted from weary hearts, and many are led to accept the healing power of the Christ-Truth.   In one of Mrs.

We commend to all Christian Scientists the well-known saying, "Silence is golden. " Our ways should be through the paths of tranquillity.

The action at against Rev. Mary Baker Eddy for alleged libel resulted in a verdict in her favor in the Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday, June 5, 1901.

We desire to correct an error which inadvertently appeared in the following statement by Mrs. Eddy as it was published on page 145 of the June Journal.

The declaration of Christian faith that God is All-in-all, is so inclusive in its meaning, so conclusive and satisfactory in its answer to philosophic inquiry, and so inspiring and helpful to the awakening spiritual sense, that it may be reckoned the corner-stone of religious truth. Many vain endeavors have been made to distort its meaning, and those who have inscribed it high upon their banners are not infrequently misunderstood and consequently misrepresented as pantheistic in the tendency of their thought, if indeed they do not identify God with the sum total of the universe.

In my days of loyalty to the Presbyterian Church with which all my early life was associated in the strictest bonds of belief, while there were times of hope and comfort. the promise "Seek, and ye shall find.