after His resurrection,―hers also. It is sin that must go out now if we are to have a healthy body, and nothing but Divine Love can accomplish this work. Christian Scientists need to love more and more. Every hour shows the need of it even among Scientists. I need it so much. My prayer is to gain this Love through purity and fleshlessness; and may I reach that point so that sometime and some day I may meet you face to face. Meanwhile I will go on doing the work of my Father in Mind.

Let me thank you for the sweet assurance and peace you have given us students of students. Indeed the heavy yoke is broken and I thank God and take fresh courage. Lovingly and obediently yours,

Arthur W. Flanders, C. S.

Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 13, 1896.

Dear Mother:-I have felt for sometime that I ought to write and express to you the gratitude which I feel for this "higher and more practical Christianity" which you have given us. Your teaching has given to me the true interpretation of the sacred Scriptures, and it heals both sin and sickness. It was for the healing of sin, rather than sickness, that I was led to follow on to gain the spiritual apprehension of your words and works, which have revealed to my understanding the way of Life.

Words are inadequate to express the sense of moral obligation, which is better expressed by loving obedience to your commands.

When I first came in contact with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I was, and for a number of years afterward,—deeply interested in the theological teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, but when I came to compare his teachings with the teachings of Science and Health I recognized the superiority of the latter, and proved the Principle to be divine which casts out evil and heals the sick. I now read only your works and the Bible, with the publications of the Christian Science Publishing Society, and I feel sure that the way into all Truth is open to me.

The many demonstrations which I have had of the power

of Truth and Love to overcome the sense of evil, or evil sense, is proof positive of the coming of the Kingdom of God to my consciousness.

What can we ask more than the assurance that God is Love; a love that supplies all human need? Daily I am proving this Principle; and my failures as well as successes have helped me to a higher realization of the Allness of God, and the nothingness of evil.

The work here in Chattanooga, while it has been seemingly a slow growth, is founded upon the faith of God and the understanding of His Christ, and we know that the "gates of hell" cannot prevail against it.

I know that you hold us all in your great love; and I trust that I may learn to emulate your patience and loving kindness, in all my ways.

Lovingly in Truth (Your student's student),

James Erwin.

Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 19, 1896.

Dear Journal:-I enclose a letter from a little patient, who has longed for some time to write to Mother but feared she would be intruding on time. On seeing the communication in the October Journal she sat down and wrote the enclosed. The child was healed absently, three years ago, of jaundice and other troubles, and before having seen her healer.

C. A. O.

"Dear Mother:-I was healed by Christian Science after I was under the doctor's care, and he said to my mamma that I would be "up on the hill" (the cemetery), if she went to Christian Science; and my mamma was healed too. My name is Mary Etta Ganson. I attend Sunday School every Sunday, and read Science and Health, and the Journal. I like the Sunday School very much and I have just been reading a little piece in the Journal; it was about the "Homeward Bound." I am only ten years old.

Mary Etta Ganson, Davenport, Iowa."

San Diego, Cal., Oct. 8, 1896. Dearest Mother:-I am so very grateful, and wish to thank you for Christian Science, this rich and blessed Truth, a living and saving Principle, which you gave to the world. Words cannot express my gratitude to you. I was healed by Christian Science both physically and mentally. I am a students' student.

Mrs. E. W. Frick.

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AN IMPORTANT CHURCH DECISION.

INCE the death of Rev. H. M. Dexter, D. D., who was everywhere recognized as the highest authority in all matters of orthodox Congregational polity, the late Rev. Dr. Quint has been called the nestor of the denomination on all such matters, and his advice has been sought on controverted questions which have arisen in orthodox Congregational churches all over the United States, and to some extent in Great Britain. It was only a short time before his death that a case was submitted to him for decision by a pastor of a Congregational church in Fairhaven, Mass. A lady member of that church, having become interested in Christian Science, wished to join the church of that name in this city. Her church refused to give her the usual letter of dismission and recommendation, in the belief that the Christian Scientist Church was not sound on the fundamental doctrines commonly accepted by the orthodox Congregational denomination. The pastor did not agree with the church and submitted the matter at issue to Rev. Dr. Quint for his opinion. Being familiar with the precepts and doctrines held and taught by Christian Scientists, Dr. Quint promptly gave his decision in favor of granting the letter of dismission and recommendation to the Fairhaven lady and went so far as to state that, if the church refused to grant the letter, it would subject itself to denominational discipline. The church yielded and the letter was granted. The lady united with The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city. The decision involved a very important point and will probably be accepted as final in all similar cases which may arise. Dr. Quint was a broad, liberal man. He had become familiar with the doctrines and methods of Christian Scientists, who now number more than two hundred thousand in this country, and he fully believed that, in what are commonly called fundamental doctrines, they were entitled, so far as dismissing and recommending members was concerned, to the fellowship of the churches of the orthodox Congregational denomination.-Boston Transcript.