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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.

Dear Journal : For the benefit of a certain class of sufferers I wish to state one of my cases; for I believe if people only know what could be done for them, thousands would seek a Scientist before they slept. In the spring I received a letter from a perfect stranger in a distant part of the State, asking what could be done for a man who had been intoxicated nearly all the time for several years, and was very profane and abusive in his family.

I have a case of cancer of the uterus, which was given up five weeks ago by the attending physicians, Dr. J.