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AT the end of 1886, the Christian Science movement was represented by a complexity of organizations. There were the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and a few churches at other places.

"Sweet silent prayer, sweet silent prayer, Thou art the shining angel stair Where thought climbs up to God and then Brings back His blessings unto men. " Listening to these words from the solo sung at a communion service in a Christian Science church, a member of the congregation was awakened to a profound sense of gratitude for the provision made in the Manual of The Mother Church for silent prayer in all Christian Science church services.

IT is evident, to those who are in a position to know, that a great redemptive work is being accomplished by the Christian Science Reading Rooms. Many grateful men and women have testified to the good they have received through their reading and meditation therein, having found in the Reading Rooms a refuge from the cares and disappointments of human existence, and having gained peace, harmony, and healing within their portals.

IN the swiftly changing and interesting panorama of world events the thoughtful observer beholds a great social evolution. In order to pursue a worth-while career amid these fleeting and often discordant elements of modern life, workers in the vast field of human endeavor, as well as those college youths who at the commencement season stand upon the threshold of wider experience, must consider their individual relation to organized society for the purpose of seeking to give definite service therein.

WHEN error knocks at the portals of thought, seeking entrance in the form of sickness, sorrow, discouragement, or lack, Christian Scientists are sometimes tempted to relinquish their church duties and activities, and yield to the argument that they had better remain inactive for a while, thereby allowing themselves a better opportunity to overcome the error. In the background of this reasoning there often lurks the unexpressed belief that they are the objects of wrong thinking, generally referred to as mental malpractice, supposedly directed toward them by others; and this is believed to be the cause of the difficulty, which a season of inactivity or detachment from church work might serve to quiet and correct.

OUR beloved Leader has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 112 ), "From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration, which, like the great Giver, are 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

IT is well known that in the work of the engineer and the architect what is regarded as a standard quality of materials used is essential. Without this quality successful building construction is impossible.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are earnestly striving to prove the oneness of Mind in their every activity; yet because of their eager zeal for perfection they are, perhaps more than ever before, sorely tempted to be critical of their own and their neighbors' mistakes. Holding high standards in thought, they are often disappointed as they see men failing to measure up to these standards.

IN prayer the Christian Scientist listens for God's voice, willing to obey it. As the tumult of personal sense is hushed, he responds joyfully to the "Be thou healed!" of the Christ.

WE read that when Joshua, the leader of the children of Israel, "was by Jericho," he beheld a man "with his sword drawn in his hand. " Inquiring as to his purpose, Joshua learned that he was the "captain of the host of the Lord.