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Here is a pretty anecdote about a little girl only three years old. Her mamma was a Christian Scientist and she had been healed by this wonderful Truth.

A Little boy only five years old, who lives in Colorado, helps his mamma very much in her Christian Science work. He is a very bright little fellow, and perhaps this story about him will inspire the children who read it with the divine impulse to "go and do likewise.

" Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should he called the sons of God; and such we are. "   Yes; " now are we the children of God," and with this priceless knowledge gained through the revelations of Christian Science, we advance steadily in the sense of spiritual freedom and dominion.

The lot of land on the corner of Falmouth and Caledonia Streets, now valued at fifteen thousand dollars, has been sold to Trustees on the condition that a church edifice shall be built thereon, for Christian Scientists. The building not to be begun until $20,000 has been raised for this purpose.

Kingdom of Heaven. "Heaven is not a locality, but a state in which Mind and body are harmonious and immortal, because sin is destroyed, and man is found having no righteousness of his own, and no Mind but God.

For days and years this yearning has filled my heart,—to know "What is Love?" The kingdom of heaven is by demonstration and power, and the kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of Love; there fore, however much it is declared to us, "God is Love" we cannot know for ourselves without demonstration and power through the understanding of the Principle and rule. When we see an answer to a mathematical problem and know it is correct, because another is a true mathematician—though we may be satisfied of its correctness, the problem can be no benefit to us, unless we ourselves work it out.

Your repeated invitations to give to the Journal profitable experiences of the efficacy of Christian Science principles, has prompted me to submit the result of a personal effort at self-treatment, begun with little light and imposed by the urgency of pressing need. I have known of this blessed Science four years, and more; but while I thought myself benefited and was greatly interested, I failed to trust entirely to its sustaining power and consequently found only partial relief.

" Christian Science rests on proof not profession. It is not a, theory, but a demonstrative system of healing, and it must be supported by proof of its power to heal.

One Sunday morning about three years ago, I was on board a steamship bound for Liverpool. It was Thanksgiving Day, too, and high winds and seas kept most of the passengers in their staterooms.

" Cast thy burden on the Lord. " These words are not simply in the way of advice or suggestion, but are in the line of Scientific demonstration and are definite and mandatory.