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" If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. " These are the words of John in his first Epistle, verified by his Master, Jesus Christ.

The following letter is the result of the work of Miss Annie Dodge, in England. — Editor.

A letter from a classmate in Science lies open before me. It expresses a thought that seems to be held by quite a number of Scientists in a more or less pronounced form.

A discourse preached on a Christmas occasion by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Reading so many letters in the Journal from the little brother and sister Scientists, it made me feel as though I would like to write one too. Last fall I had a very severe belief of sickness, one that would have left me a cripple for life, if the doctors had cared for me; but Christian Science healed me completely.

There is one family where this blessed Science has been the help and stay of mother and little ones for nearly four years. There are five boys, less than fourteen years of age.

Truth perfects praise "out of the mouth of babes" in varied and wondrous ways. Our little one, aged four and a half years, corrects, with a child's quick perception of Science, every unscientific seeming in us, and teaches us many valuable lessons in Truth.

A little boy, having become much excited at seeing a drunken man brutally abuse his horse, appeared convulsed with terror. After Christian Science treatment, and restoration to his usual happy condition, he asked,—"What made me better?" He was told that "God is Love, and is always near us; and that if he would remember this, and often think of it, he need not be afraid of anything; that God is our Father, and the children who remember this, and love only to be good, are quite safe in His care.

A call to visit the old home necessitated a long journey, and gave opportunity for observation and comparisons not found in the routine of home duties. A request to conduct a Sunday School after the manner of genuine Scientists, using the Quarterlies, Bible and Science and Health, caused a delay of two days, but gave, also, the privilege of declaring Truth where it was greatly needed, and showing misguided ones the true relation Science and Health bears to the Bible, Christianity, and the world.

Successful living, as understood in Christian Science, and as it has already appeared to me in experience, whenever the illuminating power of Spirit has freshly clarified the mind, is the realization of existence, in the one sense of it, that always attends the reflection in thought and deed, of the "divine Principle of Being" in purity and fullness. By this gracious attending the supremacy of Spirit is perceived to be the one living actuality, because Spirit is seen to be the divine Truth that creates, illumines, and sustains us with its true Light and Life, and is seen to be the divine Love, that, in creating, inspires and warms with its self-existent, living beauty, expressed in demonstration.