Articles

Mr. A.

One student who is studying Christian Science recently said he saw from the teaching of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and from the thoughts expressed in our different services, that the only way into peace, and rest, or into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, is in the purification of self; and he asked if there is any special way of working that would bring about this necessary cleansing. Another one came with several questions to be answered, seeming to feel that in the expected answers, she would find much freedom.

The organ, the auditorium, the window on the right of the gallery as you enter, containing the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and the two small windows which constitute a part of the large windows to the right and left of the pulpit, make up our pictures for this month. We do not see that any further description of these pictures is necessary.

One of the pleasant events in connection with the Mother Church was the organ concert under the management of the Farrand & Votey Organ Company of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday evening March 21st. The chief purpose of the concert was to exhibit the organ to the musical people and organ lovers of Boston, as it is the first of the kind to be introduced into this city.

Newburyport , April 12. —The police and others who were out late last night report a very beautiful and peculiar celestial phenomenon, which seemed especially pertinent to this season of the church's calendar.

Scarcely less interesting than the communion service was the children's service held on Sunday April 14th in compliance with the wish of our Leader. The Scripture reading consisted of the 28th chapter of Matthew, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, page 349 first paragraph.

The first communion services under the new order were held in the Mother Church on Sunday April 7th. They proved to be most helpful and interesting.

At last it is our glad privilege to announce that "the Mother" has seen the Church and the "Mother's Room. " The children, both large and small, have been asking,—How could she so long refrain from seeing that which was so near (in the higher sense as well as in distance) and dear to her heart? On April first, 1895, shortly after noon, quietly and unannounced, our beloved Leader and Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, entered the Mother Church.

The members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, take no stock in the efforts of the medicos to shut out the scientists from the practice of the healing art in Colorado. The society is the oldest of the Christian scientist organizations in Denver and occupies a beautiful building on Logan avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth.

A Man connected with a traveling menagerie was sleeping on some blankets on the floor of a tent, when something crawling over his breast roused him. Springing up he threw off the creature, which proved to be a huge rattlesnake.