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At a special meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. , held January 31, 1901, resolutions were adopted expressing the deep sorrow of the entire church occasioned by the departure of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

The Master's words, from his: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" while he, a child, tarried at Jerusalem, to the tearful expression of victory over self as he prayed in Gethsemane, "Not my will, but Thine, be done"—his words, all his words, his work, his whole life was one grand anthem of consecration to God. As we retrace his journey from Bethlehem to Calvary, we realize, indeed, that his Father's business was his work and his Father's will, his impulse.

Fear is universally recognized as one of the strongest elements of the human mind, the efficient cause of disease and the foundation of mortal misery. Being wholly mental, it can only be eliminated by a changed mental condition, while the attempts through material agencies to destroy the physical effects of fear, when unable to remove the fear itself, are, as has been proven, wholly unsatisfactory.

At a meeting of the Unity Club, Jackson, Mich. , held Sunday evening, February 24, 1901, the following interesting address was read by L.

In a recent interview which appeared in the columns of the New York Herald, the Rev. Mary Baker G.

The following Fast Day proclamation has been issued by Chester B. Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire:— Agreeably with a beautiful custom centuries ago established, and now in some form and to some extent adopted by all Christian peoples of the civilized world, and in accordance with what seem to be the necessities of the human race, I do appoint Thursday, the eighteenth day of April, 1901, a day of fasting, and indulge the hope that on that day all the people of our state will abstain from their usual avocations; from excessive eating and drinking; from pomp, pride, and vainglory; from all sports and festivities not in keeping with the spirit of the day as it has come down to us from the fathers; and that without sadness of countenance, hypocrisy, or cant, they will assemble at their respective places of public worship and there review their lives; recount their many departures from the path of right, justice, honor, truth, and virtue; recall, so far as they may, the great blessings of good government hourly and momentarily attending them in all their journeyings hitherto; the priceless legacies of church and state bequeathed us by the fathers; the numberless mercies of God constantly and abundantly showered upon nation, state, and individuals from an ever open hand in war and in peace, in tempest and in sunshine, from the time our pious and rugged ancestors touched Plymouth Rock until this very hour; and there, too, on bended knee, resolve that henceforth their lives shall be better and sweeter, fuller of help, labor, and sacrifice for their more unfortunate fellows; and that their remaining days on earth shall be their best ones.

Beloved Christian Scientists: —I take the following gems from my private treasures and give them to the public that, thereby, American manners toward religion and distinguished individuals be improved, and pattern our ancestors. Mary Baker G.

To the Editor of The Herald. The Rev.

Chicago, Ill. , April 8, 1901.

The new church edifice of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, was opened Easter Sunday, April 7, 1901. The event was an important one in the history of Christian Science in the metropolis of the United States.