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When Christian Science came to me I stood in deeper need of it than I realized. As a boy I was brought up in the arms of the church, and took a strong interest in religious questions; but this interest lay chiefly in the direction of how to avoid eternal punishment.

How my heart has hungered and thirsted for this blessed Truth! From childhood I said: There must be a better way, if I could only find it. And now, as I look down the vista of years, I can see how wonderful my leadings have been.

But a few weeks ago, while reading "Miscellaneous Writings," by Mrs. Eddy, I came to the quotation: "Out of the depths have I delivered thee;" and it brought up before me the scene, or panorama, of my former life.

During eight years, the doctors, one after another, had sentenced me to hopeless invalidism. There was a complication of organic and functional difficulties, which was finally pronounced incurable by a council of doctors.

I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. —Revelation, 3:8.

Christian Scientists, as a rule, are more harshly criticised, scoffed at, and maligned, than any other class of people. That which inspires these infuriated attacks is quite obvious to those who are conscientiously seeking that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," and are striving to show all men that we are his disciples by reason of the love we have, one to another.

In response to many requests we herewith publish the remarks of the First Reader of the Mother Church, delivered at the Communion service held on the first Sunday in January, 1898, as the same were preserved by stenographic notes. One of the marvels of modern genius is the art which enables the listener, trained therein, to take down almost verbatim the words coming from the lips of the speaker, who himself, immediately after the utterance of the words, often would not be able to reproduce them.

For several months I have wished that the whole world might know of the wondrous freedom Truth has brought to my consciousness, and it bids me tell the story. From the cradle I was considered very delicate, and, throughout the years of childhood, was constantly cautioned in regard to the food I should eat and the amount of work and study I might undertake; so that I grew up with the thought of insufficient strength as a part of my very being.

The full-orbed thought as to the Saviour is gained from the understanding of the life and words of Christ Jesus. In his last talk with his disciples he said: "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you" ( John, 16:7 ).

Sunday was a memorable day in the history of the Christian Science church of this city. The building is known as Christian Science Hall; it was dedicated only a few months ago, and Sunday was the first time, at a regular service, that the Rev.