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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day, would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are very unnecessary and altogether fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. Believe and love,— a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

LAST year in the Royal Academy, London, England, hung a picture entitled, "Joy and the Laborer. " Two figures only were represented one, a sweet-faced child just blossoming into intelligent girlhood, seated upon a grassy bank, singing; and the other a bent and wrinkled old man who, having ceased for the while his delving in the furrows, was leaning upon his spade listening to the child's song.

A LITTLE over eight years ago, when passing through severe financial reverses, Christian Science was brought to our notice, and from the first we found it "a very present help in trouble. " Although not seeking it for physical healing, I was cured of an organic trouble for which I was about to undergo an operation, one of Denver's leading physicians having pronounced my case incurable without it.

WHEREVER there is a defined conception of God, the religious thought finds manifestation in some outward form of worship. Men in their helplessness realize the necessity of an appeal to a higher power; and when a number in one place agree in their conceptions of this power and the manner of approach thereto, the result will be a congregation of worshipers, or a church.

WHEN a case is tried in a court of law the witness is a most important factor in the result, and a good witness may largely influence or even determine the verdict of the jury. The witness is selected for his knowledge of the facts and his identification with the interests of the litigant on whose side he testifies.

The Truth. And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.

Beloved Students: —The By-law of the Mother Church, stipulating three years as the term for its Readers, neither binds nor compels the branch churches to follow suit. And it applies only to Christian Science churches in the United States and Canada.

THE MOTHER CHURCH By-law, relative to a three years' term for Church Readers, was entitled to and has received profound attention. Rotation in office promotes wisdom, quiets mad ambition, satisfies justice, and crowns honest endeavors.

Soon after taking my class instruction in 1891, I read in our precious text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, that the pleasures of sense, as well as the pains, would have to be overcome.

MEN and women dread what is called "age. " To material sense "age"' cannot be "sugar-coated," nor insured against.