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I Would like to give my experience in searching for this blessed Truth, thinking and hoping that perhaps it may be the means of helping others in the straight and narrow way that leadeth unto "life eternal. " From my youth up I was very fond of reading and searching the Scriptures for precious truths, but used to get little help from those with whom I studied.

I Believe it is not unusual for recent converts to Christian Science, in the glamor of their new experience, to be overenthusiastic in its defence. Such champions in their mistaken ardor often prejudice against their views many candid and thoughtful persons.

In its ordinary sense, love signifies little else than blind, selfish passion which seeks only self-enjoyment and ends in envy, hate, revenge, crime. Looking over the world and analyzing its motives and aims, we learn, time and again, the same old lesson,—love accompanied by hate, jealousy, revenge, leading to some terrible denouement.

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. " 2 Cor.

It is only" he that repenteth and forsaketh his sin that shall find mercy. " That does not mean forsaking it for a day or any period of time, and then resuming it again, but forsaking it finally.

"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee. "—Abram.

Rev. James Boyd Brady, D.

In the thirty-fifth chapter of Exodus we read: "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day. " The penalty affixed to the violation of this command is, that all the congregation shall bring him without the camp and stone him with stones (Num.

In conversation with a business man on the subject of Christian Science, he asked this question: "If I were a Christian Scientist, how could I over-reach my neighbor? The answer was," If you were a Christian Scientist, you would have no desire to over-reach him; but your only thought would be to do unto him as you would have him do unto you. " And here seems to be the very rub in business: the feeling, in the main, to be honest, counteracted by the tendency to over-reach, or get the better of, a competitor in trade for the purpose of worldly gain.

Dear Editor :—You have my permission to state through your Journal, that I am living, and well, and doing well,—if indeed it is right for me to cease awhile from toil. Mary Baker Eddy.