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We often read and hear it voiced that the Rev. Mary Baker G.

Loyal Christian Scientists whose teachers are deceased. absent, or disloyal—or who, for insufficient cause would refuse to endorse their applications for membership with the Mother Church—can apply to the Clerk of this Church and present to him a recommendation signed by three members thereof in good standing therewith.

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. —1 Kings, 17:7.

This morning while out on an errand I saw what looked like a doctor's carriage standing in front of a residence. Before hardly realizing what I was doing I commenced looking back in my past life and comparing it with the present, thinking what a difference now from over six years ago.

As we advance out of sense into Soul, we can but wonder at our ignorance regarding the Truth of Being. When a clock needs repairing we do not take it to a blacksmith, neither do we go to a jeweler to have a horse shod.

At each moment of man's life he is either a king or a slave. As he surrenders to a wrong appetite, to any human weakness; as he falls prostrate in hopeless subjection to any condition, to any environment, to any failure, he is a slave.

Lincoln, Neb. , January 2, 1900.

If you will study carefully the attitude of the human mind,—the explanations and theories which mankind have to offer with reference to existence,—you will find that there are only three distinct positions or systems of thought. Two of these positions are direct opposites, each reversing the premises of the other, while the third, in one form or another, accepts the position of both and attempts to reconcile them.

Beloved Students: —I am more than satisfied with your work: its grandeur almost surprises me. Let your watch-word always be,—Great, not like Cæsar, but only great as good.

Circumstances make it necessary again to request our co-workers throughout the Field to observe the following rules in sending in their orders to the Publishing House:— All orders for Journals, Sentinels, Quarterlies, Hymnals, Manuals, Bibles, "The Mother Church," "Communion Hymn," "Mother's Evening Prayer," tracts, pamphlets personal cards, and Church notices, should be sent direct to the Christian Science Publishing Society. All orders for the publications of our Leader, Rev.