As we stated in our last number, memorial services in various branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, were held. We should be glad, if our space would permit, to notice them all in extenso, but they were too numerous to make this possible. We shall have to content ourselves with extracting from some of the addresses delivered on that occasion. We are glad to see that in some places union services were held by the different branches existing in such places.

London, England.

After the close of the morning service on Sunday, September 15, 1901, in First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England, those present were invited to remain for a few minutes.

Mr. William N. Miller, the First Reader, then said:—

"It is but fitting that we should give expression to our sincere sorrow for the death of the late President McKinley and our unqualified condemnation of the heartless crime that caused it.

"While, as Christian Scientists, we desire to have our thoughts filled with life instead of death, yet we are not lacking in human sympathy and its manifestation. Christian Scientists pre-eminently comfort the afflicted as well as heal the sick.

"A resolution, which I am sure will express the thought of all present, will now be moved by one of our members."

It was then moved by Captain Baynes and seconded by Mrs. Thomson:—

"That the members and adherents of this church—First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England—desire to express their heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. McKinley and the family of the late President McKinley and the citizens of the United States of America in their great loss through the sad demise of the President, and their deep detestation of the base and heartless crime which occasioned his death, and direct that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mrs. McKinley and the government of the United States of America."

In supporting the resolutions Mrs. Thomson said: "I do not think any words of mine are needed to give expression to the feelings of this country and of this church on this occasion. One of the greatest men who ever filled that great place once said these words: 'With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.' We know, as Christian Scientists, that if we do that faithfully, we are hastening the dawn of that glorious day of which we have just read, when the kingdom of God will come to every individual consciousness, when each will know that 'there will be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, for the former things are passed away.' "

The resolution was then passed unanimously—all present rising, and the meeting dispersed after singing the 154th hymn.

It may be interesting to note that the late President's favorite hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee," was sung by the congregation just before the resolution was passed, although at the time they did not know that it had been in his last thought.

New York City.

In Greater New York appropriate services were held in all the branches, although we have received accounts of only two. In these we have a synopsis of the remarks of only one of the speakers—Mr. Simonsen.

In First Church of Christ, Scientist, Brooklyn, the Rev. S. E. Simonsen said in part:—

"Never before in the history of mankind have mortals beheld such a scene as we behold to-day,—the whole civilized world in mourning. Never before has man's heart beat in such unselfish unison with his fellow-man as at the present hour, and when we are asked, 'Who is this man whom all the world mourns?' the answer comes, that he is a man born in a humble home, under limited circumstances. But we know in Truth, that the home that could produce such a man as our dear departed President, must have been a home of the highest type. It was a Christian home. It was a home where God was worshiped in spirit and in truth. A home where he was taught in early childhood to do God's will, and to love his Master. His mother, when asked about the President's childhood days, said that he attended school and church, and obeyed his parents. These three points are the cardinal points in the foundation of his noble character,—education, religion, and obedience. He was a leader among men, but a leader of the highest type,—not one who forced himself upon the people, but one who made himself so valuable to the people, that they inevitably chose him as their representative and leader. The career that was mapped out before him was not an easy one by any means. It often required him to take a stand, in the face of great obstacles, but he was a man of great courage, a man that dared to follow his own convictions, irrespective of what others might think. His future political career, at times, seemed to be in jeopardy, on account of this stand, and when friends pointed this out to him, he said, 'If this be so, let it come, but I must stand true to my principle, and to what I believe to be right.' Men had confidence in his honesty and integrity, and when seeming financial reverses came, and his future seemed ruined on account of this, his friends came to his rescue because they had implicit faith in his honesty and integrity as a Christian gentleman. He held, as we know, the highest offices that are the gifts of this people, and he performed his duty so well that when his first term as President had expired, he was given the second, not because all the people who supported him believed in his party, but they had implicit faith in the man. They knew that he was safe, and that the country was safe in his hands. His presidential career was full of crises of the gravest kind, but all the world knows to-day that he piloted the ship of state through the stormy sea with perfect safety, bringing this nation in touch with all the world, as it had never been before. He stands pre-eminent among all our great leaders, and no President has ever exerted such an influence on other nations as did President McKinley. Some will say that circumstances made this possible for him, but we know that he, as it were, created circumstances that compelled this to come about, and to-day he is loved and esteemed by all civilized nations of the world. They all mourn our loss and thank God, with us, for such a man as Mr. McKinley. The whole country, and in fact the civilized world, felt that they could trust a man who had that tender, deep, and abiding love for his mother, and that tender care and unfaltering devotion to his life-partner, which circumstances brought out so grandly before the public.

"These glimpses of his family life, bring out before us something of the depth of love, and true manliness, and the true Christian character that was his. His last public address will go down in history as one of the greatest that he ever delivered."

Chicago.

From the able address of Mr. Edward A. Kimball delivered at the services held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, we make the following extract:—

"We are met here, dear friends, within the shadow of a nation's grief. The dark hand of evil has made a hideous assault upon one of the noblest of men, and humanity stands aghast in contemplation of a senseless, monstrous crime and its dire consequences.

"Man's inhumanity to man, which has been a murderer from the beginning, still murders; the race continues to pay the penalties of its unloving strife; tears flow; heads are bowed, and we are again reminded that 'when Christ reigns, and not till then, will the world have rest.'

"Although we execrate this wretched deed, we have come here in no mood of anger to cry out for vengeance or violent reprisal. Let us rather emulate the Christian words of our fallen chieftain. Let us have a righteous pity for a pitiless man 'whom Satan hath bound,' and, remembering that 'vengeance is mine, saith the Lord,' let it be ours likewise to say, 'May God forgive him.'

"the history of this hour clusters about a man whose life was of such surpassing purity and sweetness that no words or flowery speech can possibly ornament its simple grandeur or add to the fragrance which perfumes the memory of him who was ever intent on the business of doing good.

"The earthly career of President McKinley lies before you like an open field. There is no need that I should linger here to paint the lily; no need that I should seek to reinforce your respect and love for this genuine man and for that which made him lovable. When history dips its pen to inscribe the long list of his virtues and the annals of his righteous life, it will declare that in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, he was unsullied; when surrounded by the foam and turbulence of human passion and hatred, he loved much; when assailed by seething temptation, he yielded not.

"In the hour of danger he was brave; in the time of excitement he was calm, wise, and prudent. It will be said that this Christian life was hallowed and glorified by the practice of charity, mercy, and forgiveness; that he was slow to wrath, tender-hearted, faithful to duty, to family and friends, faithful to mankind and to God.

"As we survey the many temptations and frailties which beset the pathway of our fellow-men, the storms which shipwreck character and blast the faltering manhood of the age, is it any wonder that with one accord the world unites to proclaim its joy over one true man who was faithful unto the end? Is it a wonder that we mourn the loss to this generation of one whose life furnishes pretext for the hope that through Christian grace mankind may some time be altogether lovely?

"In this hour, when evil seems so real and sorrow hard to bear, our hearts go out to that bereaved wife whose tender, loving companionship has been so ruthlessly shattered. Oh, may she realize that the divine presence rests upon her always. May He who saves even unto the uttermost, lead her safely through these troubled waters and bestow upon her an eternal, satisfying consolation.

"Coming here as we do, to add the flowers of our gratitude and love in memory of this illustrious man; coming perchance to shed the tear which falls in compassionate sympathy, and to lament the rude shock which has sorely wounded the world, we would surely miss the lesson of this day and this deed if we remained here but to mourn and give ourselves up to unavailing grief.

"It has been said of the dying President that in the hour of his extreme emergency, he uttered the words: 'Thy will be done,' and murmured to himself the verses of that sublime hymn, 'Nearer, my God, to Thee.'

"Some of you who have been healed by Christian Science, know what it is to sit face to face with that which seemed to be impending death, and have felt the deep emotions that surge to and fro at such a time; and now you know that the man whose Christian living has led him to the peaceful utterance of such trust in God, has on earth traveled many a league towards heaven.

"The event which we deplore touches us with severe and startling impact. The slumbering thought is aroused, and once again we are forced to recognize the fact that the world's social and political system is sadly awry.

"The two extremes of society—the despotism and selfish greed of power and wealth on one hand, and the sullen, distracted, supplicating poor on the other hand, like upper and nether stones,—have been grinding against each other in irritating and destructive friction. By a strange anomaly of fate the humane man who stood on the middle ground of moderation and good-will to men, is crushed between these stones—a martyr to a social system ungoverned by God.

"When all men shall say, 'Thy will be done,' and mean it, then will dawn the present and eternal welfare of us all, and when the universal prayer shall be 'Nearer, my God, to Thee,' the door of our salvation will open and all will be satisfied with the government of God.

"According to Christian Science the remedy for all evil lies in the power of Mind—the power of right thought which is in the image and likeness of God—of divine Intelligence.

"The scene of the redemptive work which is to transform society is within you. The enlightenment of your own consciousness and the purification and exaltation of your own understanding is the first object to attain. If you would make one supreme effort to reform the world, reform yourself, and throw the weight of your own Christian and righteous thought and example on the right side, then exert the power of Christian Science against the errors of human belief and eliminate them.

"Let us learn first what it means to be near God ourselves and to be governed by divine law. He who peers timidly towards a remote or unknown somewhere, in hopes to be near God, as though He were isolated and aloof, finds Him not, and misses the true sense of divine immanence.

"Christian Science teaches us that God is always 'God with us.' It means Good with us; Life with us; Wisdom with us. It means the power and action of Good with us. It means health, dominion, abundance, harmony, and completeness with us. It means Love with us—a loving and beloved brotherhood. It means the guidance of divine Love and all that is included in its pure embrace.

It is this God that answers prayer, heals the sick, and saves sinners. In this near God only can we 'live, and move, and have our being.' If men would change their sense of God as being an austere person who afflicts, to the understanding of the infinite presence of all that means boundless good and the perfection of being, then they would instinctively, yes, ardently, turn thitherward the footsteps that have been tired because of sin and ignorance and pain, and speedily find Heaven within.

"Turning from the prevalent assumption that this lamented death was of providential enactment, instituted or permitted for any good purpose whatever, we proclaim that God is Life and always means life for man.

"We are thankful at this time that Christian Science is extricating us from the desolating supposition that God is the procurer of death or any other evil, and so acquainting us with the divine nature that we may with ever-growing fervency and cheer utter the supreme longing, 'Nearer, my God, to Thee.' "

Detroit, Mich.

At a memorial service held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Annie M. Knott, First Reader, said in part:—

"The members of this Church, in common with the Mother Church and other branch churches, meet to-day in heart-felt response to the proclamation of President Roosevelt. It is an hour when the people of this country should ask themselves how they can best measure their loyalty and affection for those who are appointed to rule over them.

"The people of this nation have so advanced morally, intellectually, and spiritually that no man can be called to the presidential chair who does not embody and express in some measure the domestic virtues which are the only true foundation for the nation's greatness, and at the same time something of the vital spirit of Christianity. Perhaps no words can be found which would more fittingly express Mr. McKinley's character and attainments than those written by Tennyson of one of their great soldier statesmen at the time of his decease:—

"Perhaps the American people might learn some useful lessons from European nations in their sincere affection for their rulers. Do our people rightly appreciate the great burden of cares and responsibilities which rests upon those who hold the highest offices of state? Would not the love of the people make the burden lighter and the possibilities for good infinitely greater, and might not many of the vexed social and political problems of the present day be thus solved? We should certainly strive to understand that the divine government is both real and permanent,—that God cannot be shut out of our human affairs, and as we understand this more clearly we shall look for, and ultimately witness, that consummation devoutly to be wished; viz., our statesman pure and incorruptible, sustained by the affection and trust of a free and happy people.

"In closing we quote again from the English laureate:—

New Orleans, La.

Services were held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, at New Orleans. From the New Orleans Picayune we take the following account:—

"As an introduction the Second Reader then read extracts from an editorial in the morning Picayune, showing the high esteem in which the people of the South held President McKinley, and how they, with one accord, would echo his own words to a southern community, delivered a few years ago in Atlanta:—

" 'Reunited; one country again, and one country forever! Proclaim it from the press and pulpit; teach it in the schools; write it across the skies! The world sees and feels it; it cheers every heart, North and South, and brightens the life of every American home. Let nothing ever strain it again. At peace with all the world and with one another, what can stand in the pathway of our progress and prosperity?' "

The editorial's final comments were:—

"It is not difficult to see why the people of these southern states had conceived and cherished a high regard for him who relieved them from the ban of sectionalism, and why to-day, when his ashes are being committed to the tomb at his late home in a far northern state, they are shedding their tears and paying funeral honors under these southern skies. There is no mystery here. It is the love begotten of love."

Buffalo, N. Y.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Buffalo, held appropriate services. Mr. Charles D. Holcombe, Second Reader of the church, delivered an address in the course of which he said:—

"William McKinley has left us a united country. To him there was no North, no South, but a United States, a united people. At his healing touch all differences disappeared, and in their place was a bond of union strong and sweet, a union which to-day lifts a united voice in grateful homage to eulogize the memory of one so near and dear to us all. His first thought was always of others. His words of forgiveness and simple truth manifested the spirit of the man. Down the centuries of what the world calls time, those words come to us like the echo of another voice, 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.' The Master, whose strength and gentleness was so truly exemplified in his own life, had trod that path before him, and in tracing the footsteps of his Saviour, the Christlike spirit of forgiveness and trust simply found expression in words like those of his Master as a natural sequence.

"May the life of William McKinley be the power of a great inspiration in the hearts of our people, and a neverending redemptive influence in the affairs of our beloved country. And we know that this good, true man, like Enoch before his translation, 'had this testimony, that he pleased God.' "

Cincinnati, Ohio.

In First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Cincinnati, Miss Emma A. Estes, in the course of her remarks, said:—

Three times in the annals of our history have we been called upon thus to mourn the loss of our chief executive. May we to-day pray with fervent hearts that no more of our dear ones be laid as human sacrifies upon the altar of ignorance, bigotry, anarchy, and error, but that the whole world, by a baptism of repentance, may awaken to the necessity of understanding and becoming amenable to the true government of divine Love—Christ, Truth. 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' "

Kansas City, Mo.

In First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City, Mr. Charles E. Finlay made a brief address from which we quote the following:—

"To-day our republic is in tears. This is, indeed, a sad occasion, but be not depressed or cast down. 'Life and death never mingle.' Life is real. Death is unreal. Our President is not dead. Good is enduring and everlasting. God rules and governs the whole world, and man is the highest type of His creation. God is life. A leaden bullet cannot separate man from his creator. Ignorance and hatred provoked this awful tragedy, but where God rules there can be no hatred, for His law of Love is supreme. Where infinite wisdom reigns, there can be no ignorance. Where life is, there can be no death. Our President's true existence was, is, and always will be in divine Mind, where

Pittsburg, Penn.

In this branch the First Reader, Charles Hunter Miller, prefaced the service with the following remarks:—

"Friends:— We gather here with hearts oppressed by the culmination of the act of an assassin. The beloved President of the United States, William McKinley, to mortal sense lies silent in the embrace of death. In countless numbers of pulpits to-day will be preached to Protestant and Catholic, Hebrew and Gentile, native and foreigner, sermons bearing on this tragic event. Pastor, rector, priest, and rabbi, will in church, cathedral, and synagogue, deliver tearful, eloquent tributes to the worth of him we all loved. In spirit we may join in these tributes.

"In the Christian Scientist's Church the Bible and the Christian Science text-book are the only preacher. The sermon of the impersonal pastor alone is preached. We do not to-day depart from this custom, and yet there are no assembled worshipers that more truly than we love our country, more truly reverence and obey its laws, have greater abhorrence of the spirit that would seek to right evils by manifesting the spirit of Cain, the murderous spirit. To no assembled worshipers to-day comes sweeter consolation of the gospel than comes to us. Our silent prayer may be for us all a truly sweet communion with infinite Love."

St. Louis, Mo.

The First Reader in this branch, James A. Logwood, spoke in eloquent terms of the President. He said in part:

"With most sincere respect and in common with all religious bodies, more than five hundred Christian Science Churches and Societies met to-day, in compliance with the proclamation of the President of the United States, to hold appropriate services in reverence and honor of our dead chief executive, President McKinley, and with deep, loving compassion for his bereaved family and our nation.

"In our text-book our beloved Leader states, 'Trials are proofs of God's care.' This statement was born of her own individual and sorrowful experience, and thus we see this remarkable statement exemplified in our lamented President. When face to face with the last enemy to be destroyed he gave the world a deeper insight and a higher appreciation of the pure, burnished gold of his noble Christian character. With him it was not 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' In his own language, he said of the deluded culprit, 'Do not let them hurt him. May God forgive him.' And again, when the broken reeds of earth had failed to resuscitate, his thought sought refuge in God, finding expression in the beautiful and inspiring hymn, 'Nearer, my God, to Thee.' "

Washington, D. C.

Union services of the two branches at Washington, D. C., were held. In the course of the brief eulogy delivered by Mr. John F. Linscott he said of the late President: "His elevation to the chief magistracy was no accident;" also that he found in the President's meekness, courage, gentleness, integrity, and general manhood such reflection of the divine attributes as to fit him completely for the place he has taken in the world's history.

Scranton, Pa.

Mr. D. N. McKee, First Reader of the Scranton branch, delivered a touching eulogy from which we take the following:—

"A great man and a Christian citizen has fallen. The genius of our country, the true spirit of freedom, has been assailed. It is fitting that Christians who are demonstrating the liberty of the children of God should meet and pay tribute to the memory of this good man and learn, perhaps, the lesson of his burial. He who assailed William McKinley assailed also the priceless liberties symbolized by our national flag. We look upon our flag and read a history and a prophecy. It is an emblem of freedom, of strife, and of larger liberties which are yet to come; its bars of white and of red are fitting symbols of our successive steps of freedom already won, but won by our successive baptisms of blood. The white stars on the azure blue of heaven are prophetic symbols of a bloodless peace that through the spiritual Christianity of our people shall come to all the world from heaven. Here let me reproduce the prophet's vision of that peace: In that day no anarchist shall be there nor any ravenous beast, nothing shall hurt nor destroy in all that holy mountain, the innocent shall be there and the selfless shall be there, for the innocent shall be there and the selfless shall be there, for the life that is love shall fill the earth as the water covereth the sea. A spiritual Christianity under the American flag is haply that providence of God, which shall repress anarchy and bring out a diviner order in human affairs. In this country it shall not only enunciate but exemplify in human practice that law of love which even now

Cambridge, Mass.

From the remarks of William P. McKenzie, First Reader of the Cambridge branch, we extract the following:—

"Amid the mourning in our country, and among other nations, one good thing rises supreme; it is the recognition of manhood and love for its worth. The routine of official duty, political theories or even prejudices, what are they but as raiment of changing fashion easily thrown aside as transient, while the world sees as eternal the fidelity to home love, the honesty to public trust, the Christly gentleness that forgives even its slaver? Before that apocalypse of developed manhood how much of a nonentity appears the coward who represents its opposite. Will not the world take the man for a model, and be attracted from useless cruelty and heartless destructiveness, ever towards the higher beauty of the life of service and brotherly love?

Brotherhood among men is implied by the American flag appearing on every ship of the German navy, and by the crape on the arm of every British soldier. One can feel the thrill of kindness; and obedience to the law of kindness is the sure destruction of anarchy.

"It is the privilege of Christian Scientists to comfort those who mourn, and we know that only pure love can do this. Therefore let us free our minds from any contagion of resentment against the agents of crime; let us be free from any harsh judgment, so that the whole area of thought may be full of the sunlight of kindness and tender love. So shall we bless with assurance of divine Love, the bereaved home and stricken nation.

"Let us not give attention to the perversion of honor and manliness shown in a criminal, but rejoice that manhood is enduring and all good eternal. So severe is sin's own punishment of itself that we can add nothing to it; but while as yet the world's grasp on eternal good is tremulous, we can re-assure the hearts of men by our confidence in Life and Love, by our reliance upon this eternal Mind, the inexhaustible fount of good."

Syracuse, N. Y.

From the remarks of Mr. Charles L. Ohrenstein, First Reader of the branch at Syracuse, N. Y., we publish the following extract:—

"It will not be needful to eulogize at length, one so near and dear to all, one whose patriotic deeds are newly written in our hearts, deeds that will enrol his name forever among the great and good of earth.

"Without dwelling on the atrocious crime committed in our midst, it would be impossible to find words that should express our condemnation of it, or the doctrine that prompted it—anarchy.

"That a government like ours, which has brought the greatest blessings to mankind, which has given the most absolute and perfect liberty to each and all, which is the Messiah of freedom to the governments on earth,—that this government should have within its boundaries the advocates of its destruction is beyond all belief. Being and government,—the law of being,—as Christian Scientists know,—are co-existents, and no government has room in it for the doctrine of non-government, which anarchy is."

Logansport, Ind.

Judge S. T. McConnell delivered an eloquent eulogy at the Logansport, Indiana, branch, from which we make the following extracts:—

"For the third time within the memory of many of us a President of the United States has fallen and perished at the hand of an assassin. Two of these were gifted and honored sons of the great commonwealth of Ohio, James A. Garfield and William McKinley.

"On the day the bullet did its fatal work, William McKinley may well have been and was, a truly happy man. He held the highest office in the gift of any people.

"He was made twice happy by the 'glad hands' and hearty greetings of a multitude of his countrymen. And while about to greet the cruel wretch, nameless forever, he was slain. Oh, the pity of it! He

"He was a soldier brave, faultless, and capable as a commander of men.

"He was a patriot, proud of his country, alive to its dangers, an American in every sense of the word.

"He was a Christian gentleman with a tender grace that charmed all who came in contact with him, magnanimous, even to the dastardly wretch who sent him to his death. His infinite love for his delicate wife was the romance of his manly life that has won him the love of all the nation.

"Mr. McKinley is an immortal example of how greatness and goodness may go hand in hand in life's journey. His achievements demonstrated his greatness. He had no mean part in making the United States the great and progressive nation that it now is, the greatest, the most humane and most progressive in the world.

"Great in life, he was surpassingly great in his death. For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder, he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interests, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, in the presence of death, and yet he did not falter.

"The assassin of McKinley has destroyed his mortal body but the principles,—life, truth, and love,—reflected in the personality of our beloved President are immortal, and beyond the touch of the assassin's bullet or dagger. While envy, jealousy, and hatred exist in mortal mind 'It must needs be that offences come; but woe unto that man by whom the offence cometh!' "

Racine, Wis.

We extract the following from the remarks of Mr. William Van Arsdale, First Reader of the Racine branch:—

"May the nations of earth and all peoples, may our nation and our people, may our rulers and leaders and may we all, learn to love the law of Christ which is the law of righteousness and Truth, for through this law alone can we be made free.

"May the light of mercy and justice and peace, of goodness and Truth and Love be so reflected by those who strive for it, that the destruction of evil will be hastened.

"May the Christ-Truth shine so clearly that the powers of darkness will shrink back and flee before the brilliancy of its appearing. It will be in this way that we can best honor and revere the good example and life of our beloved President."

Utica, N. Y.

In the course of her address at the Utica branch Miss Marie M. Adams expressed sympathy for the nation, and particularly for Mrs. McKinley. She said this is a service of love and of life. She dwelt on McKinley's greatness and what constituted it. These qualities cannot die. They live on to ennoble the lives of all other men. They call to the people to learn lessons, to think better thoughts and live better lives, in order that the instinct of evil in human lives may be destroyed and we finally reach a time when no such crime can be committed. The crime itself created no greater shock than the thought that it could be committed in the United States. We must have a better idea of freedom and more unity with God. This will prevent crime. In our sorrow we must not forget to try to support the nation with our prayers and right thinking for the one on whom the burden of state has fallen. Do not indulge in unwarranted and unjust criticism, as these pull down instead of building up. With right thinking and right living we look to the time when this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.

Riverside, Cal.

At First Church of Christ, Scientist, Riverside, Cal., Dr. A. A. Sulcer said in part:—

"To the proclamation of our Chief Executive for the assembling of the people of the United States at their respective places of worship to-day to pay grateful tribute to the memory of the late President William McKinley, whose life, public and private, was ever an incentive to higher, purer, and nobler purposes, we, as Christian Scientists, most cordially and sincerely respond.

"Such was the universal love for President McKinley that his tragic passing away has draped a world in mourning. Certainly no greater or more heartfelt tribute of respect could be paid to a mortal man.

"Our friend and brother gave much to the world in his example of noble manhood and in his wise, unsullied statesmanship, and in departing took nothing away; for all that we loved, all that was lovable in him, was the good he reflected, and that good is eternally present. The most perfect ideal that was ever presented to the world said. 'Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.' It should be our ceaseless prayer to know more and more of the omnipotence of that good, and less and less of self; to realize more the divine possibilities of man created in the spiritual image and likeness of God."

Baltimore, Md.

The two branch churches in this city met together and held a joint service, and passed appropriate resolutions.

Toronto, Ont.

Just as we go to press we receive a brief account of the service at Toronto, as published in the Toronto Evening News. We quote:—

At the Sunday, and Wednesday evening services of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Toronto, appropriate remarks were made by the Readers and other speakers, referring to the exalted character and exemplary life of President McKinley; his great influence for the advancement of the American people, and the unification of the nations; his sincere and unswerving devotion to God and his country; his kindness of heart, and forgiving spirit towards his enemies, even to those who would take his life.

At a special meeting of the congregation the following message of condolence was authorized by a standing vote, and wired to Mrs. McKinley at Washington, D. C. :—

"The congregation of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Toronto, send you their deep sympathy in this, your solemn hour, and pray for the light of Love to unfold to you the omnipotence and strength of the eternal Presence. 'He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.' "

JOHN H. and ISABELLA M. STEWART, Readers.
JOHN O'CONNER, Clerk.

Services were held in many other branches, but our space prevents any further notice of them, much as we wish to publish them.