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I have derived so much benefit from the testimonials presented in the columns of our periodicals, that I trust an account of my wonderful healing, by Christian Science, after being relegated by materia medica to years of invalidism, may stimulate and encourage others who are seeking freedom from the ills, spiritual as well as physical, of this dream of mortal life. My father was a physician of the old school and I arrived at womanhood an ardent believer in the efficacy of the Æsculapian method, confident that it was adequate for every possible emergency of life.

A Blind and careless interpretation of the Mosaic law has too long been permitted apparently to fasten the curse of a wrong sense of heredity upon mankind. For centuries have the innocent and the inoffensive been needlessly burdened by the unresisted thought of unmerited condemnation with its attendant suffering.

[ The following discourse was delivered November 25, 1900, by Abbot Edes Smith, C. S.

The following from the pen of Rev. Mary Baker G.

At a special meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. , held January 31, 1901, this letter from our Pastor Emeritus, the Reverend Mary Baker G.

A union service of the churches in Concord, N. H.

Concord, N. H.

December 25, 1900, witnessed one of the most important events in the history of Christian Science in the South. It was the occasion of the opening of the new chapel recently erected by the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Baltimore, Md.

If any one were to be asked what is the permanent element in human existence, and if he were to think deeply before answering the question, he would be compelled to admit that thought—not things, nor even persons —withstood the shocks of time and circumstance; being first the scaffolding, and later the solid masonry of individual character. So as I endeavor to recall that which makes up my personal history, almost my earliest recollection is of a very old church in Scotland,—said to have been built before the Reformation,—and a truly fitting monument of those who swept from Scotland in a flame of zeal Shrine, altar, image, and the massive piles that harbored them.

In thinking over certain themes, it has occurred to me, how infant-like has been the birth of liberty in our country, how far yet it is from the growth it is destined to attain. Our nation has led all others in enacting statutory laws to insure and enforce liberty, but have we learned the glorious spiritual laws, knowing and living which can alone make men free? No nation has so exalted the name of liberty, or made more sacrifices for its attainment, and yet have we not been attempting to reach it thus far under the laws and practices of "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth"? And is not God's liberty-insuring law of universal Love, generally perverted to-day into a self-love, which only enslaves? And when we consider how many among us are engaged in this mortal strife of selfishness, daily striving in the name of "liberty" and "competition" to take from the liberties and substance of others, in the blind belief that we are thus adding to our own, is it surprising that our first liberty bell has cracked under the strain? Our nation as a whole has not yet learned that there is an immutable spiritual law, above human beliefs and codes, which says, "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.