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The events of the crucifixion and "the seven words," or utterances of Jesus as he hung upon the cross, are, when spiritually understood, a vivid portrayal of the successive steps, from the first taking up the cross of denial of personal sense, or the claim of life in matter, to the final overcoming of that claim, and the realization of man's spiritual individuality. Jesus was crucified about the third hour, or nine o'clock in the morning, having been scourged by Pilate before being delivered into the hands of his accusers.

Elsewhere in the Journal will be found reports and communications concerning organization in Boston and New York for Dispensary Work. This is only another of the phases of the process of organization of Christian Science, often noticed in the Journal, and that is going on in every part of the country.

It was about the year 1875 when Science and Health first crossed swords with free-love and the latter fell hors de combat . But the warfare was not ended; the book that cast the first stone is still at work deeply down in human consciousness, laying the axe at the root of error.

There was a large attendance at the April meeting of the Association. Our Teacher was present, and spoke at some length on two points, of which her students have need to be watchful.

" 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.

Editor Journal : In February, 1887, my wife and I took a course of lectures on Christian Science of Mrs. L.

" Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness (Wisdom); for they shall be filled. " The first step toward obtaining Wisdom is to open the heart to good, declare for and have faith in the omnipotence of Truth, and not to fear or believe that evil has intelligence, or the power to act, to produce, or to control anything.

Under the head of error must be classed all representations of Christian Science as something to be got by the "hearing of the ear"; the word of Science is, "Now mine eye seeth Thee. " In the mistaken teaching of Science, the perception of it as based on demonstration, the recognition of experience as the only sanction of Truth, is lacking.

" I would be at a loss to account for this appeal on the part of the doctors, but for an account which appeared in the New York City papers, of February 27, 1889, of the meeting of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. Dr.

The clamor of the press over cases of patients that pass on while under the care of Scientist practitioners rests on the false premise that they either profess to or should wholly avert the phenomenon called death. "Error is a coward before Truth," but the Scientist who shrinks from taking a case that is unpromising in belief, through fear of this clamor, or who trembles in his conduct of a case once entered on, reverses the positions of Truth and error, and eden is his Master.