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It is now a number of years since Christian Science was brought to my notice as a possible escape from the invalidism of many years. Through this long period of suffering, a nature, always practically inclined, had grown into regarding nearly every phase of this many-sided mortal existence from the aspect of pathos and sadness.

We publish below a letter written by a lawyer, who has become an earnest student and advocate of Christian Science, to a young friend. The letter is interesting and instructive, and will, we are sure, be read with profit by all.

The Granite Monthly published in New Hampshire, for which I requested Christian Scientists to subscribe one year, is not adapted to the issuance of Christian Science literature, and it was not my intention to make it an organ therefor. If you have paid a subscription fee for said magazine one year, that suffices.

The vast concourse of people which filled the Mother Church five times on Communion Sunday, attests their love and gratitude to God for His "Word, in Christian Science" (Church Manual), and expresses love and loyalty to our beloved Leader in her untiring effort and labor in teaching, guiding, and directing us, whereby we are enabled to know the Truth which makes us free. These assemblies of cultured, happy people were in striking contrast to the few eager Truth-seekers who met in Hawthorn Hall but a few years ago to hear our Leader preach Christian Science, a subject then almost unknown outside of Massachusetts.

Before last summer, I knew nothing about Christian Science, but for a number of years had been searching for something that would satisfy the nobler aspirations of the heart. There were intuitions that rebelled against the thraldom of material sense; but being ignorant of a present possiblity of deliverance, the destiny of mankind seemed dark and enigmatical in its inconsistencies and uncertainties.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I recall the evening when the subject of Christian Science was first brought to my attention in an intelligent way. Previous to this time I had heard the subject discussed by those who treated it with a sneer, and who, by their remarks and manifest disgust with what they thought it to be, led me to believe the subject was one I would do well to avoid, if I wished to retain a position among sensible people.

Harmony is , and not of past or future years. This is the present, eternal condition of the universe, though the painter of fleeting shadows cannot so admit, cannot so comprehend.

In Section 7, Article XVIII. , of the Church Manual, our Leader and Mother tells us that "God requires wisdom, economy, and brotherly love to characterize all the proceedings of the members of the Mother Church.

We are told in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, page 309, that "Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks," and that "Action expresses more gratitude than speech.

Christian Science came to me in the hurry and bustle of material living. I was a graduate from a medical college in one of the great cities of the East.