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Oh Christmastide! Oh wondrous, gladsome time! Divinity speaks, humanity answers,—and, with universal impulse, pays homage to the Bethlehem babe, the Saviour of the World! Again the listening ear catches the refrain of angel-voices, chanting the new-old message, "Peace on earth, good-will to men. " The singing waves of human want and human woe are hushed and still.

The Fair project is attracting considerable interest among the friends of Christian Science. Its purpose, as was stated last month, is to raise funds for the new church-building in Boston.

The regular monthly meeting of this Association was held on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 5, in a lower room of Tremont Temple, with a very large representation of members present, bringing with them Good Cheer from many towns and cities, east and west, north and south.

While in Boston this summer I had the pleasure of attending a few Sunday-school exercises, and I found them very instructive, in my effort to gain the spiritual significance of the Word. These lessons helped me so much that I thought I would try and give the Journal readers a few interpretations, as I remember them, trusting they will be as beneficial to others as to me.

On another page is given a fac-simile of the Card which friends of Christian Science are selling in aid of the Church Fund. It is the desire of every Christian Scientist to provide our Leader with a Church-building of her own.

Dear Journal : At Council Bluffs, in September 1884, I was taken down with nervous prostration, which ran into paralysis, softening of brain, and spinal-trouble; and in July, 1886, I became bedridden, unable to move hand or foot. I found out that medicine did me no good, and had given it up.

To all who are afflicted and suffering, I would say: Go to Mrs. Behan, of Kansas City, and be healed by Christian Science.

My dear Friend and Teacher : Enclosed you will find a check for $30. 00 for your Church-building Fund.

I want to tell some of my sick and suffering sisters what God and Christian Science have done for me. I have been an invalid for more than twenty-five years, with a complication of diseases, catarrh, throat-trouble, weak lungs, spinal-trouble, heart-trouble, and nervous prostration.

Your card is at hand, which informs me that mine, containing ten dollars, was not received. I was comparatively at ease concerning its loss; except being decidedly tried with myself, for having risked a ten-dollar bill in a letter.