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My Beloved Children :—Tenderly thanking you for your sweet industry and love on behalf of the Mother's Room in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, I herein say: The purpose of God to youward indicates another field of work that I present to your thought, whereby you can do much good, and which is adapted to your present unfolding capacity, namely: From this date that you disband as a society, drop the insignia of "Busy Bees," work in your own several localities, and no longer contribute to the Mother Church flower fund. As you grow older, advance in the knowledge of self-support, and see the need of self-culture, it is to be expected you will feel more than at present that charity begins at home, and will want money for your own uses.

Pleasant View , the home of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, was a bower of floral beauty on Easter Sunday.

So much has been said recently of Christian Science, and it has been brought prominently before the public in so many ways that even the most sceptical feel an interest in it. Still, only a few of those one meets know enough about it to be able to give any intelligent opinion of its principles, and still less of its actual workings.

I have been asked to give the meaning of the word "Life" from the Christian Science standpoint. I feel almost helpless at the thought of adequately presenting so infinite an idea in so few moments, and yet I have an earnest desire to show you that, though it is infinite, it is infinitely simple; so simple that its very simplicity and nearness dazzle the vision at first.

A pretty book of four hundred pages bound in either cloth or levant. It contains all the words of the Nazarene Prophet, printed in great primer type, prominent, complete, consecutive.

The healing of my sister first brought Christian Science to my notice in 1889, and it seemed very remarkable to me, since she had tried all sorts of doctors, many of them specialists, only to be told she might be temporarily relieved, but never could be well. I regarded it only as a means of healing sickness, so gave it little thought, as being something I did not need to investigate.

The blessings which I have received through the hallowing influence of Truth are so great that it is but meet that, like the one grateful leper, I should return and give God thanks. I had been a great sufferer all my life as the result of an accident in childhood, but am now perfectly well and strong.

The following notes will indicate to you something of the matter with which we had to deal in relation to the proposed medical bill before the New York Legislature. My own activity in this matter is an incident rather than the result of any plan.

We have often desired to write for the Journal our experience in having to defend Christian Science in the courts in Canada. But the constant demand upon our time has caused us to put it off for a more convenient season.

The devotion of students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," toward its author, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is often unpleasantly remarked upon by the world. Even those impressed by the letter of Science, who believe in the healing work, seem sometimes a trifle dazed on this point, by an indefinite prejudice against hero-worship, which, strange to say, never troubled them in their days of devotion to, say, Emerson, or Phillips Brooks.