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The February and March numbers of the Journal seem especially good. First came the message from "the mother.

I Have many times thought since coming into Christian Science how I would like to give my experience for the benefit of some who may be sick and in confusion. There are many who see a great change in our home since we have been healed and accepted the teachings of Christian Science, and yet they cannot see wherein it differs from other religions.

" For I was.

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.

No genuine reform is ill-timed or superfluous. In the inevitable march of progress old systems are worn out and cast aside, once cherished theories are forsaken, and time-honored laws are superseded and forgotten.

A Note from London, may, I hope, prove acceptable to readers of the Journal . I am sure I am expressing the feeling of all our little band here, when I say that we wish to join hands with our friends in America and to identify ourselves with the glorious work which is being done through them, in the name of Christian Science.

There is danger of running to the extreme of literalism. When we published the order of exercises of the services and meetings in the Mother Church, we did so simply as a guide for the branches, not as an order which they were bound to follow in every detail.

What a volume of testimony for Christian Science might be gathered from the children of Scientists. Their experiences in proving Truth shed a sweet fragrance upon the atmosphere of thought.

The necessity of daily asking ourselves the above question, is only learned through practice, combined with an earnest desire of detecting and destroying the "beam in our own eye. " A Christian Science student may never expect to turn traitor towards Christ or the Truth, but nevertheless how often it is done; more often, of course, unconsciously than consciously; and only through a severe self-examination can we hope to detect and correct such errors.

That Christ-Truth holds the key to wealth, has been so abundantly made manifest to me of late, I cannot refrain from giving it expression through the columns of our treasured Journal, in the hope that if there are others who, like myself, are stumbling over earth's stupid unrest, it may enable them to catch a glimpse of the true wealth, as it has been revealed to me through the reading of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.