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When Christian Science found me, about three years ago, I was a physical, and almost a mental wreck. I had searched all my life for some guide, some positive rule to live by, but in vain, nothing satisfied me.

Some months ago, in Tremont Temple, I listened with much pleasure, to the reference to the Transcendentalist made by our First Reader. The history of the Transcendentalists, as they were called, with their deep religious convictions and their earnest desires for a higher and more spiritual life, as shown to the world by their experiment at Brook Farm, is most interesting to me.

In two years' study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" I have had many lovely demonstrations. Many people are so prejudiced against Christian Science that I sometimes hesitate to speak of it; but if their conception of Christian Science is wrong, then it is our duty to put it right, and correct these false impressions.

I have derived so much benefit from the testimonials presented in the columns of our periodicals, that I trust an account of my wonderful healing, by Christian Science, after being relegated by materia medica to years of invalidism, may stimulate and encourage others who are seeking freedom from the ills, spiritual as well as physical, of this dream of mortal life. My father was a physician of the old school and I arrived at womanhood an ardent believer in the efficacy of the Æsculapian method, confident that it was adequate for every possible emergency of life.

A Blind and careless interpretation of the Mosaic law has too long been permitted apparently to fasten the curse of a wrong sense of heredity upon mankind. For centuries have the innocent and the inoffensive been needlessly burdened by the unresisted thought of unmerited condemnation with its attendant suffering.

[ The following discourse was delivered November 25, 1900, by Abbot Edes Smith, C. S.

The following from the pen of Rev. Mary Baker G.

At a special meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. , held January 31, 1901, this letter from our Pastor Emeritus, the Reverend Mary Baker G.

A union service of the churches in Concord, N. H.

Concord, N. H.