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I Would like to call the attention of the readers of the Journal , to this Greek word the keynote, as it were, of the Gospel, or joyful Message. Young, in his admirable translation, being averse to giving it the old and wrong meaning of penitence, or repentance, uses reform or reformation.

"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. "— Rom.

Des Moines, Iowa , Sept. 4, 1895.

Rev. A.

One of the very interesting parts of the Journal is the notes from the field. I have been waiting for a favorable opportunity to report my own seemingly miraculous healing of a chronic illness, which had lasted for thirty years, and which the doctors had given up as hopeless and beyond relief.

Having been healed through the power of God, I desire to follow the example of one of the lepers of old, and sincerely thank our Heavenly Father for what He has done for me — and what he is willing to do, and will do, for all who will give Him an opportunity — and know of no more effectual way to do this than in a public acknowledgment of the blessings received. I had been a sufferer for years with a supposed case of dyspepsia, and up to the eighth day of June, 1894, was taking from forty to sixty cents worth of medicine, and smoking from six to twelve cigars each day, and instead of receiving any relief from the medicine, was continually growing worse, and had reached the point where I thought I could not live much longer.

What is realization? Webster defines it as "the act of converting from imaginary or fictitious into actual: of making one's own in apprehension and experience. " Then to us students of Christian Science, realization is converting our beliefs in matter into the knowledge of Spirit, or growing into the true consciousness; it is making the Truth our own by demonstration.

Is Christian Science of any real value from a business man's point of view? We find Christian Scientists who have demonstrated considerably in healing the sick, asking this question. Business men generally are regarded as rather serving Mammon, than God, and in their eagerness to serve Mammon they cannot be overscrupulous as to the methods employed.

In Matthew 27: 35 , we read, "They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. " We read also that his garment "was without seam, was white as the light" — this robe of righteousness.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matt.