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The Rev. Dr.

How beautiful under Christian Science become the words: "For in him we live and move and have our being" ( Acts, 17:18 ). As a Methodist I had scarcely the faintest conception of what these words were intended to mean, but as I study Christian Science the text unfolds itself and becomes pregnant with meaning and beautiful in its application to man.

So many people have asked me, as they have asked many other Christian Scientists: "How is it that Christian Science costs so much to learn?" Many times the question has seemed difficult to answer. I did not care to investigate the matter on my own account, feeling assured that were the opportunity of entering a class afforded me, the thought of the price which I should pay for tuition would have no place in my mind.

We desire in this public way to render to Mrs. Mary Baker G.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. divider To withhold what will help others, is to defraud our brother and ourselves.

On the morning of the dedication of the Chicago church, November 14, 1898, I was in my bedroom in the third story of our house (the house is three stories and basement). I was getting ready to go to the morning service, and my little daughter, five years old, was playing about, when suddenly I felt a silence.

I was led to seek help in Christian Science through the illness of my mother, who lay about three months helpless with rheumatic fever. Her case was considered hopeless by two schools of medicine, Allopathic and Homœopathic.

I met with an accident March 18, 1885. I was thrown off of my feet to the forward end of a smoking-car.

One cannot but be impressed with the prominence and significance of the Scriptural number seven, as he looks down the pages of a concordance. God rested on the seventh day; the clean beasts and fowls went into the ark by sevens; there were seven years of plenteousness and seven years of dearth in Egypt; seven priests bearing seven trumpets compassed Jericho seven times; Solomon was seven years in building the temple; there were seven loaves to feed the multitude; seven deacons were chosen by the apostles; and in the Apocalypse there are mentioned, seven churches, seven spirits, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven seals, seven angels.

We herewith publish what seems to us an interesting prophecy. The article is entitled, "The Church in the Wilderness," and is contained in a little book written in 1838 by the Rev.