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To Christian Scientists, the present epoch is pre-eminently one of hope and anticipation. Never was the outlook more full of promise and good cheer than now.

A year ago last November, I had occasion to visit Jackson's Lake, Northern Wyoming, a basin formed by the Teton range of the Rocky Mountains. It being a distance of one hundred and fifty miles from the railroad station, it was necessary to make the trip by private conveyance.

All states are full of noise and confusion; only the valley of Humiliation is that empty and solitary place. Here a man shall not be so let and hindered in his contemplation as in other places he is apt to be.

When I accepted Christian Science, about four years ago, I had been a clergyman for ten years. For the work of the Christian ministry I was carefully prepared in college and divinity school.

Some remarks from a talk on Christian Science during a Lenten service by one of the prominent ministers of St. Louis.

Being a mother, I have noted with earnest interest during the past two or three years the many theories and opinions in mortal thought with regard to children—very few of which do not place upon these little ones "burdens grievous to be borne;" and how many of us are lifting so much as a finger to free them? Here are some of the expressions we hear on every side about these little ones (whom Jesus loved and of whom he said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven"): "How easier it is for a child to be naughty than to be good!"—and mortal mind usually winks at this seeming propensity—"You must not expect a child to enjoy a thing simply because it is right; he is not old enough to be so prosy;" "That's the boy of it; you need expect nothing good of boys;" "That child is too good to live; I would like to see a little more mischief in him," and so on. I might write pages of just such beliefs held and uttered by all around me—educated and ignorant—about these dear children.

We often read and hear it voiced that the Rev. Mary Baker G.

Loyal Christian Scientists whose teachers are deceased. absent, or disloyal—or who, for insufficient cause would refuse to endorse their applications for membership with the Mother Church—can apply to the Clerk of this Church and present to him a recommendation signed by three members thereof in good standing therewith.

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. —1 Kings, 17:7.

This morning while out on an errand I saw what looked like a doctor's carriage standing in front of a residence. Before hardly realizing what I was doing I commenced looking back in my past life and comparing it with the present, thinking what a difference now from over six years ago.