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"And what is prayer when it is prayer indeed? The mighty utterance of a mighty need; The man is praying who does press with might Out of the darkness into God's own light. " It is a pressing out of darkness—a coming out of self.

" The gift of God is eternal Life. " Then Life not given by God is temporal or time life.

This denial is according to the "letter" of human sense, but not according to the "spirit" of truthful understanding. The narrow, human idea of personality, whereby in thought, God is made to think and act, like a magnified man—is denied.

The fast day which fifty years ago was a regular, annual season for supposed communion with a personal God by going without food and so getting into what was supposed to be a suitable state of mind, is pretty much done away with in the churches where a personal God is still worshipped. Why is this? Jesus says, "This kind cometh not forth except by fasting and prayer.

"He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the Life. " —  I  John v.

I object to such a departure from the Principle of Christian Science, as it would be, to be memorialized in a manner which should cause personal motives for building the First Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston. Contributions to this Boston Building Fund should be made on a higher plane of thought.

"And I encamped, O babbler, against thee; And I laid siege against thee—a camp, And I raised up against thee bulwarks, And thou hast been low. From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust thou makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been heard from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whispered.

I desire to do my part toward promoting our progress along the path to Truth, and to that end submit an account of the organization of a children's "Society "based upon purely Christian Science principles; the idea of which was suggested by reading to my little daughters, of eleven and thirteen, a story called "The Little Princess. " After the reading of the book, they decided to call themselves—and others who wished to join them—The Diamond Seekers; their object being to hunt, find and acknowledge the good in everybody and everything, seeking only virtues.

Marion was a Christian Scientist. Her character especially fitted her to be one, for she was so sweet tempered, unselfish and truthful.

Ex. xxv.