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In reply to all invitations from Chicago to share the hospitality of their beautiful homes at any time during the great wonder of the world—the World's Fair—I say: Do not expect me. I have no desire to see or to hear what is offered upon this approaching occasion.

Yesterday The Citizen printed a short account of the narrow escape of Hiram Austin at the gas works. It was rather a remarkable escape, and now comes another very strange incident in connection with the affair.

NOT long ago, a drama from life was enacted in Southern California, that at one time threatened to be a tragedy, and that was witnessed from beginning to end, with the most intense interest by the faithful Scientists of Riverside and San Bernardino. The scene was a courtroom in San Bernardino where a Scientist was tried for manslaughter.

The second coming of Christ is a subject on which one may well meditate on Easter eve. For is it not less an event to be even awaited, —in tremulous hope, or in a glad surprise of believing love,— than it is to be achieved, as the personal responsibility and the personal work of every individual? What can you — what can I, do toward advancing the second coming of Christ on earth? may well be the question of each heart to-night.

WHAT material ceremony can commemorate the spiritual idea as presented by Jesus? Is there any material symbol by which we can show forth the Lord's death till he come? The use of material bread and wine in this attempt of mortals to partake of the body and blood of Christ is only another effort of mortal mind to interpret all things materially. It is easier for mortals to believe in and adopt some mode of water baptism, than it is to understand and live the Truth and Love taught by Jesus, until they too are immersed in Divine Science, and partake of the nature of the Christ-Principle.

" God cures the spirit, and the spirit cures the mind God cures the mind and the mind cures the body; so God ever works along the line of the highest things," said Rev. Emory J.

Beloved Students: I am glad to learn that the officers of the National Christian Scientist Association have thought it wise to further postpone this Convention. At your last meeting my proposition for a long adjournment was to give space for riper lessons, and heart and substance to your next convention.

The following is editorially submitted in view of the coming Easter time. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.

Without any pretense of faith in any doctor who is not regular, and without prejudice to a sincere intention of calling in a thoroughly instructed and expert practitioner whenever occasion demands, it is still permissible to smile amiably at the professional jealousy of quacks. The successful physician, with exceptions which happily are much more numerous than they were, is the most intolerant despot on earth.

Just four hundred years ago was a man brave with the conviction that beyond the finite limitations of human knowledge of the earth, there was a broader outlook for the children of men. His profound studies and experiments pointed to a pathway across the seas to other lands.