Concord, N. H., February 24, 1904.

Dear Beloved Leader:— As you know Christian Science is now in Geneva, Switzerland, and that is why my sister and self are in this country,—to know more of it and so show our gratitude to you, not only with our lips, but by our lives of loving work.

Last year I went through Mr. John Lathrop's class and this year my sister has just finished in Mrs. Lathrop's and we want to be loving, loyal, and obedient workers for the great Cause, for which you have labored long.

We have come to Concord purposely to-night to tell your dear people here what Christian Science has done for us, for ours, and for the little handful of followers in Geneva.

We saw Mr. Tomlinson this afternoon and are glad to know him, and he thought you would like to hear how my little children of eight and nine years are striving and have already brought two of their schoolmistresses into our midst.

We are grateful for what you have given us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" and my husband is now able to translate the Sunday lessons direct from Science and Health into French.

We love the hymns of the Christian Science Hymnal, as we sing those in English. We also appreciate the Sentinel and Journal and the new Herold, and we know when it is the right time we shall have a journal for our French people. For all these we thank you, and our prayer is to live the life which most approaches the Christ.

We hope to be able to catch a glimpse of your dear face to-morrow, while on your daily drive, and that your carriage will pass so slowly that we may be able to see you and tell our loved ones in Geneva about it. They already love you for what you have done and are doing.

With much affection, we subscribe ourselves,

Yours in Truth,

Mrs. Marguerite C. Vouga and Mlle. Vouga.

Phoenix, Ariz., February 16, 1904.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:— It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I send my first acknowledgment for the blessings received through Christian Science. Eight years ago I was healed of what the doctors called an incurable disease, and since that time have been brought through many seemingly dark places by the understanding of this glorious truth. I had the privilege of seeing and hearing you at the time of our last annual Communion, and these words which you gave us. "Trust in God, and have no other trusts," have been a shining light on my pathway ever since.

I will tell you of a demonstration I was able to make after the Communion. I went to Winnipeg to visit my parents, who were not Christian Scientists. A few days after my arrival, my nephew was brought to that city for an operation on his knee which had been injured several months before in a football game. The doctor in charge was unable to effect a cure, and said he would never get well unless he had this operation, which would keep him in the hospital from three to four weeks. One member of the family urged him to try Christian Science, which he did.

His limb had been carefully bandaged, and on retiring the second night, he afterwards told me, this thought came to him forcibly, "If I am going to trust in God, I have no need of this bandage," that he immediately took it off, and found the next morning that he could walk perfectly without it. In one week he returned to his home with a new Science and Health and Quarterly. He has never had any further trouble, and writes me, "I am so proud of my book, and so glad to see all those man-made laws go down."

I want to thank you for Science and Health, the Manual, and Concordance. I also send thanks for the Quarterly. All these have taught me how to find my daily bread.

Very gratefully yours,

Catherine Rumney.

Decatur, III., February 23, 1904. Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Dear Leader:—Among the many instances of the acceptance of Christian Science of which you are cognizant, I think perhaps the following is unique.

There is a very dear woman living in Shattuckville, Mass., Mrs. Maria Pike, youngest daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, who will reach the hundredth anniversary of her birth next month, and what I wished so much to tell you is that she has Science and Health and other Christian Science literature and has been studying them for several years. She is bright, is interested in the topics of the time, and is able to read, write, and sew.

She lives in her own home, which was built a hundred and forty years ago, and is happy and contented; living, not in the past, but in the now. With sincerest love and gratitude for your work for the world,

Yours with deepest loyalty,

Sarah A. Durfee.

Birmingham, Ala., February 24, 1904.

My Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I wish to tell you how much I appreciate your work and that wonderful book which was given to enlighten us all. I have passed through such ordeals and with all have realized so many beautiful things that I feel as though I might speak of them to you. I have been teaching music in a little town in this state, and in this work have had some beautiful experiences. I wish to tell you of this demonstration which came about while I was giving a vocal lesson. I was explaining at the board a problem in cadential progression. Each cadence completes a defined thought, which is marked by the curve. The thought occurred to me that the curve was an element of the circle, and the circle is symbolical of completion, unity, and in music a composition as a whole represents this. Afterwards I remembered your own thought about the circle in Science and Health, and now you see how beautifully Science reveals all things.

Lovingly yours,

Amalie D. Lawton.

New York, N. Y., February 28, 1904.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I thought it might give you pleasure to know of a demonstration of one of your five-year-old followers. He came home from kindergarten with flushed cheeks, feverish, and complaining of a pain in his stomach. I treated him, but he vomited several times before bedtime, and after a restless night commenced vomiting again in the morning. This continued some time, and he still seemed feverish. Finally, after strangling and gagging he lay back among the pillows, and between his gaps (with no suggestion from me) he sang, "God is Love, God is Love, yes I know that God is Love." That was the last time he vomited and he began to improve from then on until he was well the next day.

One thing I noticed was that instead of choosing his usual bedtime prayer, the 91st Psalm, or the 23d Psalm, or the Lord's Prayer, he wanted me to sing, "O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind."

To me this was all very beautiful, and my heart went out to you in gratitude for giving to this child as well as all of us such a beautiful concept of God. Since the coming out of the new Manual, I have begun a thorough course in English, also in English literature, but high above all I prize my Bible and Science and Health.

Though this may never reach your eyes, it has done me good to write it. Gratitude is more than words and I would prove mine by my life.

With love,

May Barris.

Hamilton, O., October 8, 1903.

Beloved Leader:— To-day while thought is filled with joy newly born, for another demonstration of Love's power, I feel such a sweet sense of "love more for every hate," and I thank you, dearest on earth, for having taught me this, not alone through your glorious poem and other writings, but by your consecrated life of love. My whole endeavor is to follow all the way.

How kind of you, in the midst of all your work, to answer my letter. It brought me comfort beyond the human, for I felt I understood your meaning when you wrote, "together we will praise God." That heavenly day on your beautiful grounds, June 29, was a peaceful benediction to all. The sweet words of loving counsel fell from dear lips like great love-drops upon my head, and I could but think of these words, "to obey is better than sacrifice."

Words can never tell for me the thought of my heart, full of thanksgiving for our new guide to the haven of Spirit,—the Mother Church Manual, so wondrously replete with Love, wisdom, and justice. May I learn truly to obey, loving and serving God and thee.

Another beautiful case of healing through the reading of Science and Health has come to my notice. The woman was informed by her physician and surgeon that she would have to walk the rest of her days on crutches. She read "the little book" for one week, when crutches were discarded, all pain had vanished, and again, as always, Truth conquered laws of mortal making. She is now learning to "lean hard upon God."

Prejudice is waning and the chosen of the Lord are returning. For all this am very grateful. My whole heart cries out, "Blessed art thou." To infinite Love and to thee do I owe my life's endless homage.

With faithful devotion, lovingly thine,

Nellie Victoria Freshman.

Portland, Ore., February 19, 1904. Mrs. Eddy.

Dear Leader and Teacher:—Because of the true way pointed out to me through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I have learned how to live, to work, to pray, to study the Bible. I see the sick raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them, and sinners are saved. These are the only proofs of my gratitude that I can offer you for the great good which has come to me and my family through Christian Science,—God's dear blessing to all mankind.

God has blessed you for your Christian faithfulness, and does bless us all through this spoken word of Life.

I remain, very sincerely,

Henry D. Janes.