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In response to many requests we herewith publish the remarks of the First Reader of the Mother Church, delivered at the Communion service held on the first Sunday in January, 1898, as the same were preserved by stenographic notes. One of the marvels of modern genius is the art which enables the listener, trained therein, to take down almost verbatim the words coming from the lips of the speaker, who himself, immediately after the utterance of the words, often would not be able to reproduce them.

For several months I have wished that the whole world might know of the wondrous freedom Truth has brought to my consciousness, and it bids me tell the story. From the cradle I was considered very delicate, and, throughout the years of childhood, was constantly cautioned in regard to the food I should eat and the amount of work and study I might undertake; so that I grew up with the thought of insufficient strength as a part of my very being.

The full-orbed thought as to the Saviour is gained from the understanding of the life and words of Christ Jesus. In his last talk with his disciples he said: "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you" ( John, 16:7 ).

Sunday was a memorable day in the history of the Christian Science church of this city. The building is known as Christian Science Hall; it was dedicated only a few months ago, and Sunday was the first time, at a regular service, that the Rev.

TO WHOM IT CONCERNS:— In reply to letters questioning the consistency of Christian Scientists taking pay for their labors, and hoping to relieve the questioner's perplexity, I will say,—After four years from my discovery of Christian Science, while taking no remuneration for my labors, and healing all manner of diseases, I was confronted with the fact of no monetary means left wherewith to hire a hall in which to speak, or to establish a Christian Science Home for indigent students (which I yearned to do), or even to meet my own current expenses, and halted from necessity. I had cast my all into the treasury of Truth, but where were the means with which to carry on a Cause? To desert the Cause never occurred to me, but nobody then wanted Christian Science, nor gave it a half penny.

On December 9, 1896, we organized a church with seven members. At that time we seldom had more than ten present at our Sunday service.

The following editorial from the Chicago Chronicle will be read with interest:— "The Doctors And Christian Science. " If the physicians of Kansas City are wise, they will let the Christian Scientists alone.

Dear Journal: —By recounting recounting a few of the blessings that Christian Science has brought me, I hope to partially repay my debt to it. I cannot be grateful enough for the wonderful and unexpected benefit that I have received from its teaching.

A Photograph was recently sent to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy from Hannover, Germany, of so novel and significant a nature that we deem it worthy of notice.

Dear Journal: —The article, "Fear Destroyed," published in the September issue of our precious Journal, has reminded me, every time I have read it, of some great "bogey-bears" that used to fill my days with fear, and that Truth has destroyed for me. The greatest of these was the fear of taking cold.