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In the Gospels two remarkable genealogies are recorded of our Master, Christ Jesus. St.

I call that mind free which masters the senses, which protects itself against animal appetites, which contemns pleasure and pain in comparison with its own energy, which penetrates beneath the body and recognizes its own reality and greatness, which passes life, not in asking what it shall eat or drink, but in hungering, thirsting, and seeking after righteousness. I call that mind free which escapes the bondage of matter, which, instead of stopping at the material universe and making it a prison wall, passes beyond it to its Author, and finds in the radiant signatures which it everywhere bears of the Infinite Spirit, helps to its own spiritual enlargement.

With much pleasure we publish below the resolution adopted September 20, 1899, by the Board of Management of First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England. THE RESOLUTION It was moved by Mrs.

The following expression of love and confidence speaks for itself:— Washington, D. C.

The name Christian Science was presented to my thought in 1888. It was recommended to me for grief; my father, husband, and only child passing on within a year and three months, leaving only a mother.

There are hundreds of teachers in our public and private schools who are uplifted and sustained by the blessed Truth of Christian Science; there are thousands working wearily on, ignorant of the great Truth that to-day stands at the door and knocks. It is to these weary workers that I would send a message of love, a word of cheer.

How many who have read these words of the Master have taken in the full import of the unselfishness portrayed in them, and how many of us who profess to love and revere his name, and who try, as well as we know how, to follow in his footsteps, have even the faintest-conception of this mighty "joy" with which this man of men, in order to share with his loved human brethren, endured the keenest anguish, the ill-treatment, the ingratitude of those for whom he suffered, without a murmur or complaint? What is this wonderful "joy" which made the blessed Master oblivious to all but it? and how is this "joy" to be fulfilled in ourselves? and what are the "things" which he spoke in the world? We must remember that before Jesus came to this world's consciousness in the human form, the age was a terrible one. Sin ran riot, and the natural consequence of sin—sickness—was rife in the land.

One of the most subtle errors of to-day is the thought of who shall be greatest,—the selfish desire for leadership and a large following; forgetting the promise, "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" ( Matthew, 18 : 20 ). The first lessons that Christian Science teach us are obedience and humility.

To-day , as on the day of Pentecost, "the wonderful works of God" are revealed, through Christian Science, to the devout seeker for Truth; but now, as then, each one, listening to the Word, hears of the "works of God" in his own language, and only as his understanding is illuminated does he speak with the "new tongue. " One marvels that his friends do not accept the Truth as taught in Christian Science, especially when they see what it has done for him.

Heaven is harmony. Harmony exists where there is a demand for every right supply and supply for every just demand.