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AN incident of unusual significance to the cause of Christian Science, came to my notice within a few days and I hasten to send it to the Journal. In the midst of the poor district of one of our largest western cities, there is a free night-school for boys and girls from the age of five years and upwards, founded and maintained by a philanthropic citizen of the city who has become an active and devoted Christian Scientist since founding the school a few years ago.

Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? John xi, 26.

THE moral law, or the Ten Commandments, of which Moses was the type, when spiritually interpreted, becomes the law of Life or Truth which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind of God, namely, Christian Science. Jesus, the offspring of the immaculate conception, or the true conception of purity, and holiness said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.

In reply to all invitations from Chicago to share the hospitality of their beautiful homes at any time during the great wonder of the world—the World's Fair—I say: Do not expect me. I have no desire to see or to hear what is offered upon this approaching occasion.

Yesterday The Citizen printed a short account of the narrow escape of Hiram Austin at the gas works. It was rather a remarkable escape, and now comes another very strange incident in connection with the affair.

NOT long ago, a drama from life was enacted in Southern California, that at one time threatened to be a tragedy, and that was witnessed from beginning to end, with the most intense interest by the faithful Scientists of Riverside and San Bernardino. The scene was a courtroom in San Bernardino where a Scientist was tried for manslaughter.

The second coming of Christ is a subject on which one may well meditate on Easter eve. For is it not less an event to be even awaited, —in tremulous hope, or in a glad surprise of believing love,— than it is to be achieved, as the personal responsibility and the personal work of every individual? What can you — what can I, do toward advancing the second coming of Christ on earth? may well be the question of each heart to-night.

WHAT material ceremony can commemorate the spiritual idea as presented by Jesus? Is there any material symbol by which we can show forth the Lord's death till he come? The use of material bread and wine in this attempt of mortals to partake of the body and blood of Christ is only another effort of mortal mind to interpret all things materially. It is easier for mortals to believe in and adopt some mode of water baptism, than it is to understand and live the Truth and Love taught by Jesus, until they too are immersed in Divine Science, and partake of the nature of the Christ-Principle.

" God cures the spirit, and the spirit cures the mind God cures the mind and the mind cures the body; so God ever works along the line of the highest things," said Rev. Emory J.

Beloved Students: I am glad to learn that the officers of the National Christian Scientist Association have thought it wise to further postpone this Convention. At your last meeting my proposition for a long adjournment was to give space for riper lessons, and heart and substance to your next convention.