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In one of the leading art stores, is a picture of Judas and the Christ, which teaches, it seems to me, a grand lesson. The artist has caught through the mists of materiality, a glimpse of the Christ as seen in Christian Science.

Verily I say unto you, whosoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. —Jesus.

In the 15th Chapter of John 12th and 17th verses are these words:— "This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.

To none but the practiced ear of the Christian Scientist does the term "mortal mind" convey a sense of a great and crying human need and the fact of a positive limit and circumference of human ingenuity, and an impassable gulf, forever fixed between human and Divine conception; between human theories and systems and Divine Principle. Blind as the world has ever been to the necessity and potency of a fine discrimination between the issues of sense and Soul it is not strange that all hope has been subjected to human conditions and exigencies, and that this "new tongue" should convey to deaf ears many terms they cannot comprehend.

It is an axiom that "Truth crushed to earth will rise again. " Phenix-like, it rises up out of what to material sense seems its own ashes.

It has been decided that it is best for the children of the local congregation here in the Mother Church to supply the Mother's Room with flowers each Sunday. Hence, the contributions to that Fund from the children elsewhere will cease.

I Would like to call the attention of the readers of the Journal , to this Greek word the keynote, as it were, of the Gospel, or joyful Message. Young, in his admirable translation, being averse to giving it the old and wrong meaning of penitence, or repentance, uses reform or reformation.

"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. "— Rom.

Des Moines, Iowa , Sept. 4, 1895.

Rev. A.