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I can assure you that it gives me no ordinary pleasure to be able to write you that our blessed book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, can now enter Canada free of duty. The outlook seemed dark for a time, as we had an absolute refusal at first.

Now in those days King Nullus greatly desired to possess the treasures that were hid in the cave beneath his palace; but the king and his people feared to enter the darkness of the cave less they might be destroyed by the Terror which dwelt therein. And in the night there appeared unto the king a vision, and the voice of the vision spake unto the king and said —" Let the king cause the darkness to be removed from the cave, and behold, the Terror will flee away, and what then shall hinder that the king shall possess the treasures of the cave?" And sleep fled from the eyes of the king, for he said, "The desire of my soul is at hand.

To one who has gained any understanding of the Principle taught by Christian Science, it seems strange that the Bible has been read during all these years with so little real conception of what the words actually teach. I am not one to cry down other systems of religion, or make sweeping charges against others.

Two remarkable things signalized the advent of the year 1895. One was the dedication of the Mother Church edifice in Boston.

Beloved Brethren :— People coming from a distance expecting to hear me speak in the Mother Church are frequently disappointed. To avoid this, I will hereafter duly notify the Directors when I shall be present to address this congregation, and the clerk of the Church can inform correspondents.

Special to the Kansas City Times. Atchison, Kan.

The building of the Mother Church suggests the thought: How like the building of the temple at Jerusalem, without sound of axe or hammer. The stones were taken from the quarries, and were hewn, cut and polished at a distance from the city, so too, we, living stones, and away from the material structure, are made ready, hewn, cut and polished.

If the case of Mr. Hatten had come to trial an opportunity would have been afforded, to prove not only the injustice of the proceedings against him, but the testimonies of many grateful witnesses would have been heard, proving the beneficent work of Christian Science in healing the sinful, the sorrowful, and the sick, in which he has been engaged for several years.

When I was a member of an orthodox church some years ago, the question was asked of a Sabbath-school teacher why miracles were not performed now by Jesus' disciples, as eighteen hundred years ago? The teacher replied, "At that time it was necessary for those works to be done in order to prove that Jesus was the Son of God, and to show his power so that men would believe on him. But now the gospel has been so widely spread and Jesus so generally acknowledged to be the Saviour of the world, that miracles are no longer necessary to confirm the word.

"The flame shall not hurt thee. I only design Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.