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To none but the practiced ear of the Christian Scientist does the term "mortal mind" convey a sense of a great and crying human need and the fact of a positive limit and circumference of human ingenuity, and an impassable gulf, forever fixed between human and Divine conception; between human theories and systems and Divine Principle. Blind as the world has ever been to the necessity and potency of a fine discrimination between the issues of sense and Soul it is not strange that all hope has been subjected to human conditions and exigencies, and that this "new tongue" should convey to deaf ears many terms they cannot comprehend.

It is an axiom that "Truth crushed to earth will rise again. " Phenix-like, it rises up out of what to material sense seems its own ashes.

It has been decided that it is best for the children of the local congregation here in the Mother Church to supply the Mother's Room with flowers each Sunday. Hence, the contributions to that Fund from the children elsewhere will cease.

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.

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.

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.