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"Chicago, Ill. , Nov.

Beloved Busy Bees:— Truly this is an hour of "sweet surprises!" You all, ere this, have read the joyful news in the August Journal, embodied in our Mother's promise of an early invitation to visit her in her Concord home, as did the "big children" on Monday, July 5th, in response to her message read in the Mother Church on July Fourth. I will quote the part which causes our hearts to bound with delight:— My precious Busy Bees, under twelve years of age, are requested to visit me at a later date, which I hope soon to name to them.

Since the reception on July 5 by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy to members of the Christian Science Church, many stories concerning gifts of great value given then to the Mother of Christian Science, have been afloat.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. —2 Corinthians, 5: 1.

A Copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has been presented to the Oklahoma County Jail; also a copy of "Miscellaneous Writings" to the High School Library at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ter. From Lawrence, Mass.

In the fullness of youth, wealth, beauty, and love were hers. Yet all her dreams were of fame.

An early conviction in awakening from material sense, of a sincere desire for only the pure Truth— to take no one's opinion of what "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" teaches— is surely a protection from the shoals of false literature and human theories, and is that which will save from mental darkness, a darkness dreary and black. Such a conviction showed me that to accept the revelation of Truth, means to accept the revelator as such, and led me to see that the ways, means, and appointments provided were of God, not of personal choice.

I Would like to cite the Scientific cure of two apparently hopeless cases of the morphine habit made a few years ago which have stood the test of time. A man who was a drummer-boy in the late war, being injured in one of the battles, was removed to a hospital where the attending physician, to relieve his suffering, gave him hypodermic injections of morphine.

It is nine years last March since I had the privilege of joining Mrs. Eddy's primary class.

Dear Journal :—I can no longer allow the claims of sense to whisper, "Wait until you are entirely healed before giving thanks through the Journal. " Now is the time to acknowledge "Truth and what it has done for us" (S.