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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.

THE Bible class of Judge Stockbridge, at the Associate Reformed Church, will to-day listen to the views of one of the leading Christian Scientists in local circles. This class is composed of from fifty to seventy members, as the attendance varies, and since January i has each Sunday heard some prominent advocate of a sect assertedly founded upon the life and teachings of the Christ.

THE principal of a celebrated school I attended used to say, "Girls, go through a wilderness. " Whether she was right or not I do not know, but the words were somewhat of a comfort to me, for they expressed just what life seemed to me.

ABOUT a month or so ago, I had a dream which helped me a great deal in the realization of this present state of consciousness as being only a dream, and how the sense dreams vanish at the voice of Truth. A lady had come to me some time before with a very severe belief of neuralgia.

DURING the study of a recent Bible Lesson there was emphasized to my thought as never before the compassionate and unalterable relationship which exists between our heavenly Father, God, and each well-loved child, and since awakening to this fact I have found reassurance of the same comforting relationship in each lesson, scripture, and hymn. As a closing benediction to each Sunday lesson the Scriptural reference from I John, 3 , gives happy assurance that "now are we the sons of God," and would further imply that this relationship becomes apparent as we grow "like him,"—God-like in consciousness.

To the Editor. Among other things, as reported in your paper, Dr.

We strongly incline to the opinion that the critics of Christian Science who carp about the logical methods of the author of the text-book, are too much given to straining out gnats and swallowing camels. This habit seems to be a result of modern theological training.

In connection with the foregoing interesting articles of Mr. Rome and Me Braun we publish the following from Mr.