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Wednesday evening, December 21, 1898, in the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Atlanta, Georgia, before a large and appreciative audience, Mrs. Livingston Mims delivered a most interesting lecture.

The Publishing Society has felt and still entertains a friendly interest in the Washington News Letter, and through the loving counsel and admonition of our beloved Leader—not to "cast the first stone"—we trust that this attitude has been put upon the truly Christian and Scientific basis. The editor of the News Letter in a recent editorial says of his paper, that it is "not a Christian Science organ, nor is it a Christian Science publication.

The question is oftentimes asked, From which church denominations does Christian Science gain the greatest following? Those who feel the need of it are the first to accept it, and we find hungry and needy ones in all churches and out of the churches, and in all positions and vocations in life. Christian Science offers itself as a purely metaphysical method of restoring health and harmony, and for this reason it finds few followers from those who believe themselves successful in material methods.

From the Boston Herald, June 8. Testimony to Cures.

The annual Communion service of the Mother Church was observed on Sunday, June 4, 1899. Next to the Mother's visits, this service was the most important event since the dedication of the Mother Church.

My Beloved Brethren: —Looking on this annual assemblage of human consciousness, health, harmony, growth, grandeur, and achievement, garlanded with glad faces, willing hands, and warm hearts,—who would say to-day "What a fond fool is hope"? The fruition of friendship, the world's arms outstretched to us, heart meeting heart across continents and oceans, bloodless sieges and tearless triumphs, the "well done" already yours, and the undone waiting only your swift hands,—are enough to make this hour glad. What more abounds and abides in the hearts of these hearers and speakers pen may not tell.

The First Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. , at their recent semi-annual meeting sent to their Leader, the Rev.

Mr. Charles A.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," page 234, our Leader tells us that "what hinders man's progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times. " On page 356 she gives us this rule: "One can never go up, until one has gone down in his own esteem.

Jesus demonstrated on the cross that life is made continuous and becomes indestructible, when its quality is love. Not once did he say, but as the record declares he kept saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.