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I enjoy reading the Children's Department, for it helps me in my studies in school; and it helps me to demonstrate over belief of sickness. I am living with my grandmother.

A while ago I entered a Christian Science home, where I was so impressed with the open avenue to truth of the pure child thought, I concluded to send a word to the Journal about it. Our little Willard has always been in the blessed atmosphere of Science.

A Mother , who had just been healed by absent treatments, knowing nothing of Science, except that which came through the healing power of Truth, tells the following "My little boy had a severe canker sore mouth. I tried to treat him the best I could, as I could not use medicine after my wonderful cure,— it seemed blasphemous,—and there was no Scientist near.

A little girl, aged four, was troubled with a quick temper. One day her cousins, who were playing in the yard, wishing her to go into the house, began throwing bits of dirt and sticks at her.

We talk, in our self-righteousness (conceit) of having come to the ascension, before we have not only not borne, but have not been nailed to the cross. We talk of bearing the cross before we have been on the mount of transfiguration.

The present hour marks a significant stage of growth among Christian Scientists. The Revised Science and Health, so recently given us by our Teacher, urges all to higher realization and demonstration of Divine Science.

My experience in Dispensary work began about the middle of June 1890. For a year I had been saying (I believe sincerely) "Here am I" Lord, send me; yet when this work opened before me, and I stood face to face with it, I could only say: "Not my will but thine.

Dear Inquirer : I accept your description of "Christian Science" as substantially correct, as having to do with the "Scientists" whom you have known: but as I have known a few persons, "Christian Scientists" of the straitest sect, to whom that description could not be applied, except as a libel, I feel that it may be obligatory upon me to speak out. No persons should be more careful than Baptists not to condemn their fellow-men before they have taken the trouble to examine their teaching and compare it with their life.

Since it is definitely determined that the building to be erected in Boston in the interest of Christian Science, is not merely to contain an auditorium for church and other services, but is to embody adequately furnished and permanent quarters for our Christian Science Publishing Society, the movement is no longer confined to one of local or sectional interest merely, but is become one of national concern. It is now understood that this building will sustain to our Cause the same relation as that at present existing between the mammoth building on Fifth Avenue, New York City, and the Methodist Denomination supporting it, or between the buildings on Beacon Street, Boston, and the Unitarian and Congregational churches respectively.

I cannot help giving you a little talk concerning the building of the long-looked-for and much-desired First Church of Christ (Scientist) of Boston, which is to be a home for all Scientists everywhere; and which is also to be the combined headquarters for the Christian Science Publishing Society, for the Dispensary, for meetings—and, in short, for everything that concerns the Cause of Christian Science and its work. It is now several months since, in one of our monthly meetings, I first agitated anew the subject of our dear church.