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I have a Sabbath School class of children of from thirteen to fourteen years. They are, with one or two exceptions, children of Scientists, so that the teaching received in the class is not new or strange to them.

With an air of humility fully in accord with his worn and patched appearance, he walked up the stairs in advance of me on Monday morning, as I arrived at my office to attend to the day's duties. With resigned yet hopeful bearing, he sought at the various offices in the building for small jobs.

My little six-year-old grandson came home from school with a belief of hoarseness; he could not speak aloud. I took him on my lap, and he said over the Scientific Statement of Being.

There has been with me a great desire to prove Christian Science to be of practical value. We hear it said by one and another: "Christian Science is a beautiful belief, but I have so much material work to do that I find little time to enjoy it;" also: "I believe in Christian Science, but my home cares leave me little time for its study; hence I do not advance much in understanding.

I have watched with no little interest the expressions in the Journal regarding a "Children's Quarterly"; noting particularly the one-sidedness of the subject. At first I heartily echoed the thought; but "a cloud, no bigger than a man's hand," appeared in the horizon of my mind, and when it began to assume greater proportions, I felt that it was time to analyze it.

A fountain of perfectly pure water was discovered on a mountain near a great city. The discoverer had searched long and dliigently for this supply, and then spent long years in testing its qualities, limits, and source.

Because of the remarkable adaptability of Christian Science to the most varied circumstances of life, we need no grand and inspiring opportunities to become fruitful, to afford exercise in full of the Love-Strength accompanying its Light. Having gained some of its truths, an hour cannot pass, in a practical life, in which opportunity does not occur for their direct application.

To-day as of old the cry goes up, from the length and breadth of our land, for a Moses to deliver the people from the bondage of Egypt; and again we hear from those who believe they see the way out of Egypt, the cry for Aaron the priest, or preacher. Would it not be well to analyze these thoughts, and see what motive prompts them, also to see whether they are strictly in line with Science? Several questions present themselves prominently before us at this point, viz.

The feast of the Passover was a yearly festival in commemoration of the hour when the son of man should be lifted from death unto Life. This Jewish festival was but little understood by those who so devoutly carried out the letter of the feast; since their literal apprehension of it blinded them to the true spiritual feast, that Jesus gave the apostles.

Our lesson begins with a talk on what we have accomplished through the week, the children telling of their demonstrations over claims of error; often testifying to pain disappearing in trying to realize that "God is Love" and "God's child cannot be hurt. " They also give an account of their little tickets, which they receive every Sunday, with the thought of using them for some deed of kindness, always remembering to give them away with thoughts of Love, and of the perfection of the real child of God.