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Cleveland, June 12, '89. The annual meeting of the National Christian Scientist Association convened at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Wednesday morning, June 12, 1889.

Looking at the passing seasons, and their distinctive characteristics, from the standpoint of material sense, man has drawn comparisons between them and his own career. Summer he regards as a type of life, and in winter he sees a type of death.

Is it not realization of the true sense of Being? Of man's true estate as the image and likeness of God, the opposite of the man declared through material sense? This understanding has come to us through one who has fulfilled, even in conception, all the conditions of human belief. Jesus, the first and perfect Demonstrator of the immortal, perfect man was conceived differently from us, direct from the Divine Idea.

These inquiries are coming from the "four quarters,"—For what purpose has Mrs. Eddy relinquished certain lines of labor in the field of Christian Science and called others to the work? Is she writing her history? or completing her works on the Scriptures? She is doing neither, but is taking a vacation, her first in twenty-five years.

For three months before the meeting of the National Association the intimations had grown more distinct of the severance of visible relations between the Teacher of Christian Science and her students. The number of the Journal that reached them as they were leaving their homes for Cleveland gave distinct announcement of her separation from College and church Pastorate; the gift of the Journal to the Association and resignation of its presidency, that greeted the opening assemblage, made the severance complete and definitive.

"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.

How foolish and vain are the best laid schemes of diplomacy, and the highest exhibitions of tact in carrying out plans for the upbuilding of Christian Science. The least shade of deception is fatal to growth in Truth.

"Tasted the good Word of God" ( Heb. vi.

A great deal has been said by the Discoverer of Christian Science, by her students, and in the pages of this Journal, on the question of mixed literature on Christian Science Mind-healing. All who write on the subject claim to be absolutely correct, and yet no two agree.

The events of the crucifixion and "the seven words," or utterances of Jesus as he hung upon the cross, are, when spiritually understood, a vivid portrayal of the successive steps, from the first taking up the cross of denial of personal sense, or the claim of life in matter, to the final overcoming of that claim, and the realization of man's spiritual individuality. Jesus was crucified about the third hour, or nine o'clock in the morning, having been scourged by Pilate before being delivered into the hands of his accusers.