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Before coming into Christian Science, I had been a close student of hygienic laws, studying material cause and effect with much zeal and enthusiasm, hoping thus to benefit my own immediate family and friends. These hygienic studies led me to dread passing green slime-covered pools of water which human law invested with poisonous exhalations and miasmatic qualities.

Minneapolis, Minn. MRS.

That which most intimately concerns mankind today is "Healing. " On every hand, go where we may, there are the halt, the maimed, the blind, the sick and suffering, directly or indirectly the effects of sin.

What is the field? The World. Who are the missionaries? Every one who has heard Jesus say "Follow me," and is obeying that call.

Just two years have passed since the blessed light of Christian Science first dawned on my view, and I have never before spoken a word for the Truth through our Journal. For nine years I was a wretched invalid.

The fruitage of Love and Truth, after long and patient waiting, is being manifested in stately beauty and glory in this, the Queen City of the West. Through trials and siftings that would appall the material sense, brave and undaunted hearts and unfaltering hands have maintained with silent, but resistless power, the illumined banner of Christian Science —God is all —evil is no where—no thing.

"In Jesus' first sermon he did not say to men, Love one another (he gave this instruction to his disciples later on), but he preached like John the Baptist the necessity for repentance, Mєτάνοєττє, change your conception of life or you will all perish. The object of your life cannot consist in the pursuit of your own personal welfare or that of your family or your country because this happiness can be attained only at the expense of your neighbor.

Dear Journal :—"Our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence; our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. " These beautiful thoughts from George Eliot portray, in a measure, the feelings experienced by the writer when she attempts to voice the deep sense of gratitude for the glimpse that has been afforded her into the glorious Shrine of Spirit—a glimpse redolent with celestial sunshine, beauty, intelligence, power, Love and Truth.

Portland, Me. , August 12, 1896.

" When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord. Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know ye not whence ye are.