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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.

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.

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

"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.

To my thought, the awakening of the spiritual consciousness is a new birth. By the "law of inversion" this is typified by the birth of the child on this material plane.

Steadily we are advancing from sense to Soul. Clouds may rise and shadows fall, but where Love is, there is no lack of spiritual Light to guide us to our home.