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A stumbling block in the way of many students of Christian Science will probably be the false and perverted, but commonly accepted, meaning of the word "atonement. " The writer was greatly surprised on first reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," at the interpretation there given: "At-one-ment,"—meaning man's reconciliation, or unity with God.

The word Law, as defined by Webster, means: "That which is laid, set, or fixed. A rule of order or conduct as established by authority; a fixed regulation; a decree; an order.

In comparing the Old and New Testaments, it is very pleasing to me to note how much more love is manifested in the New than in the Old Testament. The fourth chapter of the First Epistle of John is very helpful and beautiful, and is one of my favorite Bible readings, because therein is love made very plain; hence it is a chapter well adapted to all Christian Scientists, and of course to me.

At the Communion Service held in the Mother Church on Sunday, January 2, 1898, the following letter from the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy was read by the First Reader:— "My Beloved Brethren: — The change in the time for holding our semi-annual church meetings, I have suggested, in order to separate these sessions from the excitement and commotion of the season's holidays.

" My kingdom is not of this world," said the gentle Nazarene. And when the temptations of evil spread out before him in vision, "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them," his sharp rebuke to the temptation was, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

We make the following extracts from some of Chicago's great daily newspapers anent the completion and dedication of the new Christian Science Church building in that city. The Chicago Evening Post of November 13.

The following copy of a letter acknowledging an act of unusual courtesy explains itself:— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 95 Falmouth Street. Boston, Mass.

One morning when I took my leave from home on my regular trip and had smoked two cigars, the silent messenger came to me: "Stop smoking;" and then error asserted itself and said, "There is no harm in smoking, and you take pleasure in it, and why not allow yourself this one pleasure?" Then the thought came: "Keep count how many cigars you smoke to-day," and as I had smoked two I put into my left vest pocket ten cents, and every cigar I smoked I put into my vest pocket five cents; at the time of retiring I had just seventy-five cents, which represented fifteen cigars. "When I got up in the morning a silent voice said, "Don't smoke.

Dear Journal: —I have always disliked the idea of being a human sponge—always absorbing, and never giving out to others except by the process of squeezing. For over two years I have read the Journal, and received great benefits, and now I want to do my part.

How truly did Jesus prophesy that the conditions of mortal mind should be the same at the second coming of Christ, as when the great demonstrator of Christian Science came to solve the problem,—to overcome the world, so that to all future generations he should be the Way, the Truth, and the Life. St.