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We are glad to publish the following interesting letter and enclosures received from our Leader. That legislatures and courts are thus declaring the liberties of Christian Scientists is most gratifying to our people; not because a favor has been extended, but because their inherent rights are recognized in an official and authoritative manner.

To the Editor. At no better time than now, when the whole country is recognizing the steady progress of Christian Science and admitting its interest in the movement as shown by the fair attitude of the press everywhere, could we ask you to give your readers the following communication.

In the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy, the author, makes the statement that "The central fact of the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power" (p.

As we become more and more interested in Christian Science we may find ourselves more rarely visiting the shelves where former favorites, the works of poets, philosophers, and other thinkers, are kept. We may not feel that these books did not merit the attention bestowed upon them, but their thought can no longer serve as we walk in the radiant light of this new revelation of Truth.

All Christendom unites in believing that the mission of the Master was to bring "on earth peace, good-will toward men. " If we take simply a superficial glance at present existing conditions of life, we might think that men were farther away than ever before from this exalted condition.

To many thinkers the terms prayer and supplication are synonymous, but in the light of Christian Science we find that prayer means that God's will is done, not shall be, and that in supplication we have usually desired our own way, and so have endeavored to instruct God as to what we think necessary. God is the one Mind, the one true thinker, the one Principle or governor, and so we cannot desire Him to do contrary to His divine will.

It is absolutely essential to our highest happiness and success that we learn how to work out our own salvation; which must be both complete and universal. It is just as needful for the sober-headed business man as for the Christian Science practitioner to learn how to work out the problem of salvation.

We are glad to publish the following interesting letter and enclosures received from our Leader. That legislatures and courts are thus declaring the liberties of Christian Scientists is most gratifying to our people; not because a favor has been extended, but because their inherent rights are recognized in an official and authoritative manner.

General Association of Teachers. My Beloved Students :—I call you mine, for all is Thine and mine.

"The Christian Scientist," Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, page 450, "has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death;" a reformatory work of" the broadest possible scope, embracing as it does the alleviation and ultimate cure of all the ills that flesh is heir to,—ethical, pathological, social, economic, and industrial.