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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.

AS medical schools, doctors and material remedies are multiplying at a fearful rate, and still diseases are increasing at a much faster ratio, there is little hope of a victory by that method, so mankind is forced to look in some other direction for relief, and very naturally turns squarely about from the use of outward things, which can be seen, felt, tasted and smelled, and attempts to conquer through inward spiritual or mental force. As homæopathy has spread over the land and almost set entirely aside the barbarous methods of bleeding, blistering, salivating and drugging, and taught the world the force of high attenuations and almost no medicine at all, so mental healing advances and demonstrates still farther that material remedies are in many troubles entirely unnecessary.

The Christian Science Journal for June opens with a short poem, "Laying the Corner Stone," by Mary B. Eddy, followed by a communication from the same pen referring to the ceremony of laying the corner stone of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, on May 21st, 1894.

There is a new method of administering the communion recently inaugurated in the Central Church at Rochester, N. Y.

During the last few months we have been studying much about the Temple and how to help build it. Many of us have added a single stone here and there, when had we been more awake and made just a little more effort, we might have builded a whole column.

Scripture declares that "God is the health of His people. " If we are His people, we must know Him.

For every one that asketh receiveth; and lie that seeketh fimleth; and to him that knocketh it shall he opened. Matt.

A child once stood at the door of a beautiful palace. To her wondering gaze it looked like magic within—all lights, and color and flowers.