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The tenth day of November, 1901, was one of great rejoicing for Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in our city. The occasion was the dedication of our new chapel, located on East Avenue.

To-day , could you but hear the song of human hearts, there would burst in upon your soul a strain of music, sweeter far than fancied angel songs, sweeter than the lullaby over the cradle, sweeter than the peals of old Liberty Bell when it first proclaimed the victory of freedom's cause. 'Twould indeed be freedom's song—the song of the liberty of the sons of God—the song of gratitude and joy from the hearts of countless sorrowing ones whose chains of sickness and sin have been cut in sunder by the sword of Truth, whose discords have hushed to let harmony be heard.

The following letter written by Mr. McCrackan to the editor of the American Messenger is herewith published with pleasure:— To the Editor of the American Messenger.

It is the duty of every one to live up to his highest understanding of Good. A Christian Scientist, by studying the Science of Being, finds this understanding to be higher, clearer, and broader every day; so the inevitable demand for a better life follows.

It is the half doing and not the whole doing which most tires. It is the breathless, hurried, spasmodic exertion which soonest exhausts.

From The Christian Register we republish, under the above title, the following review of Dr. John Fiske 's last lecture:— The Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University provides once a year an occasion for the public consideration of the doctrine of immortality.

In the story of the Galilean, it is narrated that on one occasion he healed ten lepers, of whom only one returned to bear testimony to his power to heal. Imitating this grateful man I would offer my evidence as to the truth and efficacy of Christian Science, which to-day reiterates the teachings, and reproduces the works of Christ.

To my sense, one of the greatest beauties of Biblical teaching, and especially the Christian Science concept of it, is the great fact that we are all required to work out our own salvation. This very necessary work cannot be done by leaning on others, neither can it be accomplished by looking for the mote that seems to be in a brother's eye, not discerning the beam in our own.

How many of us, taught in childhood to repeat the Lord's Prayer, ever recognized the deep divinity involved in the above portion of it before we were awakened to the glorious light shed upon the Scriptures and the life of Christ Jesus by Christian Science? In the visible universe, as it appears in human consciousness, is it man alone who fails to do the will of God and to reflect His law? That seems to be the implied belief in the old religious thought, for in the narrower sense of sin as commonly held in that thought, man alone is a sinner. But what does this involve? In the first place, it involves the impossible proposition that God has two wills or laws, one for Heaven and another for earth, for no Christian will contend that the conditions which exist in the physical world and the law which governs its phenomena are operative in the Heaven to which he looks forward.

Art. XVIII.