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The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has decided a most important question affecting Christian Science practice in two cases which recently went before that court on appeal: the cases of the State v . Mylod and Anthony.

Christian scientists are frequently charged with certain inconsistencies wholly apart from the teachings of this discovery of the nineteenth century. A million men and women who are the adherents or the friends of this faith in the United States, can bear witness that Christian Science does not profess to remove things that are real.

As we read the writings of John—whether it be the Gospel, or Epistles, or the Apocalyptic Vision, commonly called the Book of Revelation—we cannot fail to catch such a glimpse of the true man that we no longer wonder that this one of the chosen twelve should be spoken of as the one "whom Jesus loved," "the Apostle of Love," and by many such beautiful cognomens. We know from our own experience that love attracts love, and therefore we wonder not that the great, loving heart of Jesus should go out in such a flood of love to this disciple, the youngest of the little band of chosen followers; for in the bosom of that one it found a more responsive and sympathetic chord than in the bosoms of the others; and further, Jesus the enlightened, could read the character of the man before him and read it aright.

GROWTH OF THE GOD-CONCEPT. Give a prophet the God-idea of a nation, and he will write its history.

The new building erected at the corner of Simcoe and Caer Howell Streets, and which is to be known as the first Church of Christ. Scientist, was formally opened for worship yesterday.

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. — Jeremiah, 9:23, 24.

On the evening of June 11, 1898, at the Auditorium in Chicago, Hon. W G.

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.

Is it not strange that there should be a moment of silence in a Christian Science testimonial meeting? Would there ever be a spare moment in such a gathering if only a fraction of those present would stand up and make "an open confession" of their faith, and tell what Christian Science had done for them? In the Mother Church, for instance, would there be a single soundless second, if only one-tenth of those present should speak for a minute each? There are places where silence is grateful and satisfying, but that place does not seem to me to be a Christian Science testimony meeting. Our dear Mother has permitted the holding of these meetings that even those whose "ears have waxed gross" might understand what wonderful things are being done by the demonstrators of Christian Science, not only along the lines of physical healing, but in the healing of sin as well, and the application of the great Principle to business propositions that are confronting us all daily.

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.