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On looking back over the twenty-five years during which I have been a member of the Congregational Church, I can see how I was being made ready to accept Christian Science when it should come to me. Hot-tempered and impulsive, timid and sensitive, yet earnest and conscientious, my whole life has been one of hard struggle with the seemingly warring elements within me.

The Patriarchal theory of Government as found in the Bible and the Patria Potestas of ancient Rome were in many respects identical in terms, and in particular they each emphasized the authority and control of the father or head of the family over the person and property of the "Son under the Power. " The earliest peoples were first found in isolated families, then, as the number of families increased and some were grown more powerful than others, the law of self-preservation brought about a combination of several families, forming a tribe.

One of the greatest joys that comes to us after we begin to understand Christian Science is the comforting assurance, the glorious certainty, that God is guiding His children of this age, as surely as he guided the children of Israel in their journey out from bondage into the promised land of liberty and plenty; and we learn that the advice given to them so long ago is equally practical and valuable to us to-day. His wise counsel was certainly intended for every age and clime, and after our eyes are opened by the study of our great text-book, Science and Health, we read the Bible with fresh interest, constantly finding pearls of wisdom and instruction, not for some future state of existence which seems too remote to interest us, but for here and now.

Men may reasonably inquire why it is that so many adverse criticisms from pulpit and press, of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are being made, if it really is such a key and explains the principle and law of the spiritual healing taught and practised by Jesus in the first century, as claimed by Christian Scientists; and why is it that one class of honest readers pronounce it full of unreasonable and contradictory statements, while another class, equally honest and intelligent, claim to find its reasoning faultless, its statements invincible, and that it brings into such clear view the healing truth of the Scriptures, that every honest and patient student of the two books can demonstrate their verity and unity. It may also be as reasonably asked why so many scholars and thinkers of every civilized country on the globe, both now and in the past, have made the same criticisms against the Bible that are now being made against Science and Health.

In the Gospels two remarkable genealogies are recorded of our Master, Christ Jesus. St.

I call that mind free which masters the senses, which protects itself against animal appetites, which contemns pleasure and pain in comparison with its own energy, which penetrates beneath the body and recognizes its own reality and greatness, which passes life, not in asking what it shall eat or drink, but in hungering, thirsting, and seeking after righteousness. I call that mind free which escapes the bondage of matter, which, instead of stopping at the material universe and making it a prison wall, passes beyond it to its Author, and finds in the radiant signatures which it everywhere bears of the Infinite Spirit, helps to its own spiritual enlargement.

With much pleasure we publish below the resolution adopted September 20, 1899, by the Board of Management of First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England. THE RESOLUTION It was moved by Mrs.

The following expression of love and confidence speaks for itself:— Washington, D. C.

There are hundreds of teachers in our public and private schools who are uplifted and sustained by the blessed Truth of Christian Science; there are thousands working wearily on, ignorant of the great Truth that to-day stands at the door and knocks. It is to these weary workers that I would send a message of love, a word of cheer.

The name Christian Science was presented to my thought in 1888. It was recommended to me for grief; my father, husband, and only child passing on within a year and three months, leaving only a mother.