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I Have been thinking over the duty of each one to do what they can in contributing to our Journal , which grows dearer and more necessary all the time. I await its coming with the utmost eagerness, looking first of course, if there is anything from the Mother.

On the eleventh of last December about 8. 30 P.

For fifteen years I had been a sufferer from periodical attacks of sick headache; these attacks as years passed on became more frequent and of greater severity and would stay by me from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. I had tried the skill of physicians too numerous to mention.

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of progress old systems are worn out and cast aside, once cherished theories are forsaken, and time-honored laws are superseded and forgotten.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.