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The statement is often made that Christian Science is a "Woman's Religion," and it is said in a way that would carry with it a slur and a suggestion that by virtue of its being so dubbed it would fully justify one wasting no thought or time upon it; and would also result in securing its everlasting doom. If it be the truth, what augurs it whether it was first voiced by a man or a woman? It were as though one should object to partaking of the Elixir of Life because it was handed to him in a tin cup instead of a wooden chalice.

I. To all English-speaking people the Bible is the most important book in their language, and commands a larger sale than any other therein.

The sun casts no shadows—only light. How so? Were the sun not shining, would there be one single shadow? Yes, there would be just one single shadow; all would be shadow.

My Dear Friend: —I admire your frankness, am glad you are pleased with my letter, and that you mean to prosecute your inquiries further. I fear, however, the field opened up by your letter of acknowledgment is too large for us to enter, much less to hope to cover, in this correspondence.

Some years ago I became an invalid. I was at the time president of the South Dakota W.

The one supreme Scriptural demand upon man is, that he shall love. Jesus, the Christ, the anointed of God, when asked, "Which is the great commandment in the law?" in making his reply, began with these words: "Thou shalt love;" then he immediately stated the second which he said was like unto the first, and it began: "Thou shalt love.

Several years ago I was requested by a young Indian to treat his sister for consumption in an advanced stage. Two weeks afterwards I again visited the town of Walhalla, at the foot of the Pembina Mountains, and in these mountains the Indians lived.

When asked what was the first and great commandment our Master replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength," and to this he added, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. " Our Master knew that if we obeyed the first and great commandment we would be better fitted to obey the second, that we would then only see and recognize the perfect man, and as we loved God and began to understand our true sonship, we would hasten to overcome all that stood in the way of our perfect realization of God's idea.

I Want to acknowledge the great good as well as pleasure derived from reading our publications. When the Sentinel of May 2 was brought in, I was suffering from weakness and nervousness.

In 1866, I had an experience which I will relate, which proved to me that the blessed Master is with us always, as he has promised. It was in February of the above year, my husband, our baby less than one year old, and myself, went from California to Nicaragua.