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It may be that a short story of my experience in finding "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" will fall across the path of some one walking amid shadows and beacon them, so I here set it down. It is Omar the Persian who sings in his Rubiat of The heavenly alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden into gold transmutes; and surely the leaden metal of my old life has by the wine of Truth been transformed into real gold.

With a great love of God, thought may recognize that He is All-in-all, the One wholly and infinitely Good, that "besides Him there is none other," that His omnipresence as Mind satisfies mankind's pursuit of Truth, and that His omnipotence as Love answers the minutest need of the affections. Such being the Source of all existence which He pronounced "very good," must be our very Life,—true consciousness, individuality, and immortal blessedness,—even Perfection expressed in a perfect universe, wherein man is God's likeness, the spiritual reflection of infinite Spirit.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," p. 129, Mrs.

An ever-increasing appreciation of the faithful work of those who have charge of our publications and gratitude for the help that I have received from reading the testimonies of others make me esteem it a privilege to try to help others by writing of some experiences which helped me to a better understanding of Christian Science. When I first became interested in the subject I thought that anything of a helpful nature would have to come outside of the line of my daily work, for to my thought there seemed but little in machine-shop work that could point to spiritual facts; but I am thankful that I have since learned that environment is no barrier to Truth, and many times during the last five years I have mentally exclaimed while in the shop, "This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. —Paul to Timothy.

I look to Thee for help, My God, my Father, when I stray: I look to Thee for light, Hoping to see the only Way. Longing to see the Allness, The Life, the Truth, the Love of Thee— Something to hold me there— So that I cannot help but see.

One of the most significant facts favorable to the rapid growth of Christian Science is that many Jewish people are accepting it for physical, moral, and spiritual healing. The fact is that Christian Science seems to be the focal point which thinking people of all religious creeds are turning.

Christian Science , which came in so quietly a few years ago as to be almost unnoticed, has made such steady progress, and is asserting itself so vigorously, that mortal mind has been startled into a more just and careful examination of this new phase of Christian religion, or rather this restoration of primitive Christianity. With all the pros and cons of press and pulpit, the fact is almost universally accepted that Christian Science is here, and most decidedly here to stay.

To mortal thought, dealing with the evidences of the material senses for its witnesses, Causation is a problem needing solution. Humanly speaking, all that man seems to see are series of "causes" and "effects.

Beloved Students: —For your manifold Christmas memorials, too numerous to name, I group you in one benison and send you my Christmas gift, two words enwrapped,— love and thanks. To-day Christian Scientists have their record in the monarch's palace, the Alpine hamlet, the Christian traveler's resting-place.