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The August number of the Journal is received, and I desire to acknowledge my appreciation of the "Editor's Table. " It reminds us of the necessity there is for being Christianly scientific, in what are frequently termed "the little things.

The following is a copy of a letter recently written by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy to Mrs.

In a letter to the editor Mrs. Eddy writes :— "The Rules and By-laws in the manual of The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, were not made in solemn conclave and with arbitrary sentiment as in ancient Sanhedrim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson , in a Phi Beta Kappa oration on "The Progress of Culture," recounts the gains of the reform movement as follows:— Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted. The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.

SUDDENLY came a sense of usual routine of habit gone; several weeks, several Sabbaths to regulate in use for one's self. I find in the push and rush of the weeks gone by, much was put one side for lack of time.

A FEW days ago I was called to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to help dedicate a church builded by the Christian Scientists in that place and vicinity. Stillwater is an inland town of about one thousand inhabitants.

IT would sometimes seem that the worst foe to our harmony is the vexed question, Who shall be the greatest? Heads are sometimes turned by the personal homage humanity gives them. Personally they seem to be connected with demonstrations of Truth: and self-righteousness whispers, "Just see me and what I have done.

WEBSTER'S definition of loyalty — "The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior or to duty, love, etc. Loyalty expresses properly that fidelity which one owes according to law, and does not necessarily include that attachment to the royal person" — or personality.

THE great care needed to be exercised in giving to learners the true idea of Science, is too often overlooked in our efforts to hasten the progress of humanity in the understanding of Truth. Now, would it not be much better that we hasten our efforts to better understand Truth? We can, in no other way, show our fellow-mortals the blessings which an understanding of Christian Science bestows, than by proving by works instead of words the reality of what we say.

UNTIL we have our understanding enlightened by Christian Science it is impossible to realize how imperative is the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " Three years ago I was worshiping false gods; the idol my heart was most wedded to was my home.