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Sweet words! Short though they be yet a child may learn to lisp them and feel their influence, but the human mind can never grasp their full significance until it sees the nothingness of itself, and conceives of God allness No human being, however, is so gross that he will not recognize, to some extent, the kind deed, the loving thought, the helping hand, and patient forbearance, which are all manifestations of the one and only God. Was it not really our false concept of God man, and the universe which held, as it were, our hands with chains from reaching out to help some weary one and feed the hungry and heal the sick? But a blessed Light has dawned in this age, through our Leader, and when man truly desires this God, which is Love, it is attainable here and now—"A God that knoweth no evil, and sendeth no evil upon man.

This maxim is generally supposed to express the power of some physical or material force over a weaker element, in many instances of evil over good. Within the last month, however, I have had a glimpse of what the world will be when the might of divine Principle, Truth, and Love, rules and governs the affections of man—when He whose right it is shall reign.

In order to send you an account of the growth of Christian Science on the desert, in Mojave, California, I must record a wonderful demonstration of the power of Truth in meeting and destroying material laws. Christian Science could scarcely have had a severer test, not alone for the claims of disease it was called upon to heal, but because of the circumstances and conditions surrounding the case.

My Dear Brother: —The Stars and Stripes I have come to love long ago, because in spirit I am an American, though born a South African. My love for your wonderful land of liberty has actuated and increased my interest in all things American, and for the greatest of all these I am devoutly thankful, and as I write my heart is thrilled with gratitude.

To a person absorbed in the battledore and shuttlecock game of material existence, with his affairs enveloped chiefly in a hustle, hullabaloo, and devil-take-the-hind-most atmosphere, the word "spirit," or "spirituality," seems shrouded in impenetrable mystery and superstition. It certainly seemed thus once to the writer, and I well remember in my early business days, before learning a little of the grand lessons of Science, how I looked askance at this word, and many times I declared that if it required any particular spirituality to understand Christian Science, and become a Scientist, it was not for me, supposing that the quality of spirituality was possessed by only a certain few.

There are hundreds of women in this country who each summer, live in a state of mind bordering almost on frenzy. They scarcely see a dog on a hot day but they fear hydrophobia.

From the parable of the talents we learn that Truth holds us responsible for the right use of all that is intrusted to our keeping, but for nothing more. The blessed benediction, "well done," is bestowed upon the faithful one "according to that he hath, and not according to that he hath not.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne. — Revelation.

The anniversary of Independence Day just passed brought with it pleasant recollections of the remarkable gathering, one year ago, of the students of our beloved Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, at Pleasant View.

In reply to letters asking what shall be done with the balance of money contributed by the children to the Flower Fund, I will say: If the contributors, or the parents of those who are under age, so desire, they can consummate their loving bequests by giving this amount towards furnishing the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord, N. H.