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One of the pleasant events in connection with the Mother Church was the organ concert under the management of the Farrand & Votey Organ Company of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday evening March 21st. The chief purpose of the concert was to exhibit the organ to the musical people and organ lovers of Boston, as it is the first of the kind to be introduced into this city.

Scarcely less interesting than the communion service was the children's service held on Sunday April 14th in compliance with the wish of our Leader. The Scripture reading consisted of the 28th chapter of Matthew, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, page 349 first paragraph.

The first communion services under the new order were held in the Mother Church on Sunday April 7th. They proved to be most helpful and interesting.

At last it is our glad privilege to announce that "the Mother" has seen the Church and the "Mother's Room. " The children, both large and small, have been asking,—How could she so long refrain from seeing that which was so near (in the higher sense as well as in distance) and dear to her heart? On April first, 1895, shortly after noon, quietly and unannounced, our beloved Leader and Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, entered the Mother Church.

The members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, take no stock in the efforts of the medicos to shut out the scientists from the practice of the healing art in Colorado. The society is the oldest of the Christian scientist organizations in Denver and occupies a beautiful building on Logan avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth.

A Man connected with a traveling menagerie was sleeping on some blankets on the floor of a tent, when something crawling over his breast roused him. Springing up he threw off the creature, which proved to be a huge rattlesnake.

We all know her—she is simply the woman of the past with an added grace—a newer charm. Some of her dearest ones call her "selfish" because she thinks so much of herself she spends her whole time helping others.

DR. Joseph Parker , of the London Temple, has recently stated his views regarding the possibilities of the twentieth century.

It is interesting to see how natural science in its last analysis of matter, in its answer to the question what is matter?— lends its aid to elucidating the statements of Christian Science regarding matter. Such passages from the Scriptures as "God is all and there is none beside Him; in Him we live and move and have our being"; and from Christian Science as There is no life, substance or intelligence in matter," are confirmed in natural science by the atomic theory: "Matter is divided into infinitely minute particles, each being separated from all others by surrounding space.

Error is quite often expressed in the following sentence: "Christian Science is so hard. " Elijah said, 1st Kings 1821, "How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him"; and when we allow such an opinion to escape our lips, or even to form itself in thought have we not chosen Baal? Let us consider this sentence in the light of reason.