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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life, have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came. — Charles Kingsley.

A little more than a year ago, I began the study of Christian Science, although I had previously read many of Mrs. Eddy's books, and had laid them aside with regret that I could find nothing practical in them.

Nothing contributes more to the highest success than the formation of a habit of enjoying things. Whatever your calling in life may be, whatever misfortunes or hardships may come to you make up your mind resolutely that, come what may, you will get the most possible real enjoyment out of every day; that you will increase your capacity for enjoying life, by trying to find the sunny side of every experience of the day.

In my early life, after some years of office preparation, my father made me a partner in his business, where I had all the advantages of his mature experience and wise counsel, besides which his love and tenderness made the partnership one of perfect trust and confidence, the father ofttimes seeming to be an elder brother to me as well. This earthly parent and partner passed away many years ago, and I was bereft of the wisdom and counsel which had so often guided me.

In one of his marvelous epistles, after clearly setting forth our duty and relation to God, to Christ, and to our fellow-man, showing us the evils we must avoid and the good we should do, putting off the old man, the false self and its deeds, putting on the new, regenerated by a new revelation of himself as the image of his Maker (renewing of the mind),—after showing us all this. Paul says, "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

I Have been a long time in fulfilling my duty toward the Journal and Sentinel for all the blessings and" lessons they have shown me through the loving testimony of some of their more obedient readers. Always when I have read the calls for more testimonials from the Field, I have said to myself, although knowing that the solicitation applied to me as well as to every other reader.

There is one conclusive argument which proves that the wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, is not a bundle of human theories.

In Christian Science the building of a church edifice marks a most significant period of growth in the history of the church, because of the mental work which it calls forth from all its members, rousing them to see the meaning of the spiritual church, and to fulfil the duties it announces. It has been my privilege during the past three years to share in the mental labors and blessings of a body of workers, in giving birth to their highest conception of the unseen Church of Christ, and perhaps a few of the thoughts which were brought out and proved through practical demonstration during that time, as well as some of the lessons which still remain to be learned, may be helpful to others, as they have been and are to me.

Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.

A Few words for the Christian Science Hymnal, as an educator of religious thought, as well as a spiritual inspiration, written from the standpoint of experience, may help to a higher estimate of its value. It may also suggest ways by which this collection may become more useful, not alone in public worship, but as an aid to daily spiritual growth; and possibly to voice culture as well, it conscientiously practised.