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Our testimony meetings have been so crowded lately that sometimes there has not been standing room, and people had to remain outside the door, where they could hardly hear anything, while others went away disappointed. To meet this difficulty, until we can move into larger quarters, we have now two testimony meetings in the week, on Wednesday and on Friday.

One of the burning questions of the present day is, How shall we apply Christianity in social relations? What is the true ideal, competition or co–operation, war or fellowship? Tradition has brought down to us a belief in the necessity for war. Men find themselves in the iron grasp of army rules, and must go forth and slay those with whom they have no quarrel.

San Francisco, February 26, 1902. Friend E.

Christian Scientists are often heard to express deep gratitude for the help, the inspiration, and the comfort they receive from the rehearsal of the spiritual experiences of other Christian Scientists. The honest seeker after Truth is sure to find in the experiences of other seekers after Truth many conditions and circumstances directly parelleling or strikingly analogous to his own experiences.

The following article was first prepared hastily as an address for a ministers' meeting and afterwards was written out in full; it has now been rewritten for publication. The religious character of Christian Science is well shown, first, in the circumstances of its discovery.

We clip the following from The Daily Patriot regarding the Easter service at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, N. H.

Section I of Article XXXI. of the By-laws of the Church Manual has been amended so as to read a follows: "There shall be a Board of Education, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, consisting of three members, a president, a vice-president, and a teacher of Christian Science.

One tree cannot grow for another tree, and neither can one person grow for another person or do his problem for him. Some vegetation thrives off other vegetation, but I take it that Christian Scientists and parasites have nothing in common.

The total number of Christian Science churches and societies, here and abroad, is now 663, showing the remarkable increase of 81 during last year. The Christian Science Sentinel furnishes the following authoritative figures relative to the denomination:— The total number of branch churches for the year ending December 31, 1900, was 443.

It is quite possible we may find "books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. " While seated in my garden plot.