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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.

The First Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. , at their recent semi-annual meeting sent to their Leader, the Rev.

Mr. Charles A.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," page 234, our Leader tells us that "what hinders man's progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times. " On page 356 she gives us this rule: "One can never go up, until one has gone down in his own esteem.

Jesus demonstrated on the cross that life is made continuous and becomes indestructible, when its quality is love. Not once did he say, but as the record declares he kept saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

In the study of the Christian Science Bible Lessons, many a welcome angel thought illumines our way as we journey towards "the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall, and the rights of man to freedom are fully known and acknowledged" (Science and Health, p. 122).

The Editor on page 12 of the Christian Science Sentinel for February 9, has awakened me to the fact that "the healing work of Christian Science should not be overlooked. " Our beloved Leader, Mrs.

St. Paul referred at one time to the "mystery of godliness" as great.