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Dear Editor: —After I was healed of long-standing ailments by Christian Science, I wrote to my niece of the great change I had experienced. I wrote in the joy of my heart, hoping that they might try the same remedy, for all three of their family were invalids, and the mother has since passed on.

Christian Scientists would do well to remember that according to St. Luke when at one time "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted" our Master and Way-shower, asking, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" he answered, "What is written in the law? how readest thou?" My experience has taught me that the temptation to attempt over-much when asked advice along certain lines in Christian Science must be prayerfully and humbly guarded against.

An attempt to explain the import of these teachings which we read in the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew might remind one of that useless effort which we have many times heard referred to, namely, the gilding of pure gold.

Having never yet written for the Journal and being conscious of having received much encouragement from the articles of others appearing in its pages, gratitude impels me to record my experience in the hope that it may prove of benefit to some seeker. Less than three years ago, I was induced to attend the Friday night testimonial meetings of the Christian Scientists of this city.

Wednesday evening, December 21, 1898, in the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Atlanta, Georgia, before a large and appreciative audience, Mrs. Livingston Mims delivered a most interesting lecture.

The Publishing Society has felt and still entertains a friendly interest in the Washington News Letter, and through the loving counsel and admonition of our beloved Leader—not to "cast the first stone"—we trust that this attitude has been put upon the truly Christian and Scientific basis. The editor of the News Letter in a recent editorial says of his paper, that it is "not a Christian Science organ, nor is it a Christian Science publication.

The question is oftentimes asked, From which church denominations does Christian Science gain the greatest following? Those who feel the need of it are the first to accept it, and we find hungry and needy ones in all churches and out of the churches, and in all positions and vocations in life. Christian Science offers itself as a purely metaphysical method of restoring health and harmony, and for this reason it finds few followers from those who believe themselves successful in material methods.

From the Boston Herald, June 8. Testimony to Cures.

The annual Communion service of the Mother Church was observed on Sunday, June 4, 1899. Next to the Mother's visits, this service was the most important event since the dedication of the Mother Church.

My Beloved Brethren: —Looking on this annual assemblage of human consciousness, health, harmony, growth, grandeur, and achievement, garlanded with glad faces, willing hands, and warm hearts,—who would say to-day "What a fond fool is hope"? The fruition of friendship, the world's arms outstretched to us, heart meeting heart across continents and oceans, bloodless sieges and tearless triumphs, the "well done" already yours, and the undone waiting only your swift hands,—are enough to make this hour glad. What more abounds and abides in the hearts of these hearers and speakers pen may not tell.