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The lot of land on the corner of Falmouth and Caledonia Streets, now valued at fifteen thousand dollars, has been sold to Trustees on the condition that a church edifice shall be built thereon, for Christian Scientists. The building not to be begun until $20,000 has been raised for this purpose.

Kingdom of Heaven. "Heaven is not a locality, but a state in which Mind and body are harmonious and immortal, because sin is destroyed, and man is found having no righteousness of his own, and no Mind but God.

For days and years this yearning has filled my heart,—to know "What is Love?" The kingdom of heaven is by demonstration and power, and the kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of Love; there fore, however much it is declared to us, "God is Love" we cannot know for ourselves without demonstration and power through the understanding of the Principle and rule. When we see an answer to a mathematical problem and know it is correct, because another is a true mathematician—though we may be satisfied of its correctness, the problem can be no benefit to us, unless we ourselves work it out.

Your repeated invitations to give to the Journal profitable experiences of the efficacy of Christian Science principles, has prompted me to submit the result of a personal effort at self-treatment, begun with little light and imposed by the urgency of pressing need. I have known of this blessed Science four years, and more; but while I thought myself benefited and was greatly interested, I failed to trust entirely to its sustaining power and consequently found only partial relief.

" Christian Science rests on proof not profession. It is not a, theory, but a demonstrative system of healing, and it must be supported by proof of its power to heal.

" Cast thy burden on the Lord. " These words are not simply in the way of advice or suggestion, but are in the line of Scientific demonstration and are definite and mandatory.

One Sunday morning about three years ago, I was on board a steamship bound for Liverpool. It was Thanksgiving Day, too, and high winds and seas kept most of the passengers in their staterooms.

The preamble and resolutions published herewith explain so fully as to preclude comment, the latest of the steps by which we are being led to the fuller consciousness that "man is, not will be, spiritual,"—that we are living in the spiritual world, not in one that is material. "At a special meeting of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College Corporation, Oct.

A Thought of reversion comes to me so forcibly in these four words; take a card, write on it the words "live" and "lived;" hold it before a mirror, and the reflection you see in it reads "evil" and "devil. " Does it not seem a strange coincidence that "live" should spell "evil" backwards? In the one we have the real, in the other the unreal.

The long winter evenings are come again. How shall we turn them to good account? The writer of this sketch begs leave to relate a pleasant chapter of experiences which took place in his circle of friends and neighbors who are Scientists, during the past winter.