Beloit, Wis., July 14, 1905.
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—It is with hearts full of gratitude to you, and of love for The Mother Church, that we desire to express ourselves as a church. At a business meeting held some two years ago, our church voted to send the collection, which was not to be less than fifty dollars, on the first Sunday of each quarter, to The Mother Church Building Fund, until The Mother Church is completed. We took our quarterly collection for this purpose July 2, and at our semiannual meeting we raised the amount to one hundred dollars. Following this, the motion was made that we lend our local church building fund to the Lord by turning the full amount, one hundred and twelve dollars and seven cents, over to The Mother Church Building Fund. As it was lying idle in the bank, this motion met a hearty response.

The following Sunday, our Sunday School voted to send all the money in the Sunday School treasury, four dollars and seventy-eight cents, also the Sunday School Church Building Fund of eighteen dollars and twenty-eight cents, to The Mother Church Building Fund. This may bring to mind the widow's mite, but if it be given in love it does its required work.

Affectionately yours,

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Edwin A. Greenwood, Chairman of Board of Trustees
Mrs. Margaret M. Meyer, Chairman of Board of Directors
John E. Sargent, Clerk 

MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beloit, Wis.

Beloved Brethren:—"Well done,... good and faithful ...enter thou into the joy of thy lord." "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted."

Lovingly yours in Christ.

Mary Baker Eddy.
 Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., August 7, 1905.

Los Angeles, Cal., July 8, 1905.

Beloved Leader and Teacher:—Money cannot represent, nor can mere words express, our love and reverence for you, which is inspired by your devotion to the cause of Truth and Love. On this Communion Sunday, Second Church of Los Angeles has taken up a special collection for The Mother Church Building Fund, amounting to nine hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents, which makes the total subscription to the fund, so far, by our church ninety-one hundred dollars. In addition to this, members of the church have subscribed, and are paying regularly, about three hundred dollars a month to the fund, to be continued until the building is completed. These contributions are sent as a small token of the sincere love and affection of the Christian Scientists of this far-away Western city, for their Leader and Teacher, and for the Church she has founded.

We are endeavoring to supply the need of a church edifice in our own field. We have purchased lots in one of the most attractive residential districts of the city, at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, and the plans for the church are now being prepared. With a growing church, having a regular attendance of over one thousand, the need of a building of our own has become imperative, but we know that this necessity cannot prevent us from enjoying the privilege of joining in the work of erecting The Mother Church. We are trying to show our love and appreciation by obedience and faithfulness to the requirements of our blessed religion. May our church ever be found striving for all that is high and noble, and for that Mind which was in Christ, that we may be worthy to call you Leader and Friend.

Peter N. Trahn, Elma P. Jones, Blanche K. Corby, John D. Works,
 Kate S. Greppin, Committee.

MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.

God loves you, I love you. The world is made better by such as you.

Mary Baker Eddy.

Portsmouth, O., July 29, 1905.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader and Guide:—Ever since I was found by Christian Science and privileged to learn at the feet of Truth, the desire has always been present with me to give you something, but I never seemed to have anything quite good enough to offer. I felt from the first that whatever entered Pleasant View must be perfect of its kind. As thought expanded, and as I saw that everything visible is but "type and shadow," the desire began to formulate itself, and I longed to send a pure gold ring containing three beautiful clear diamonds. The desire, as to a symbol, seems as remote as ever, but I believe I can now send its substance.

During the last few weeks I have been able to prove that Christian Science heals "quickly and permanently," as you wrote the London church, and as our Church Manual commands. The first of these cases is that of a little boy who, at four o'clock in the afternoon, fell from the top of a high tree, about thirty feet, and was carried home unconscious. About a half hour after the message for help came, another was received,—Conscious and without pain, but one arm seems helpless; cries if we move it; we think it is dislocated at the elbow." The next morning he wiped the breakfast dishes, using both arms, and went to school as usual,—well.

The second: At 8 a.m. a lady fell from top to bottom of a long stairway, disfiguring her face and injuring her hip. Shortly after, from a sense of nervous shock, convulsions set in, and when her daughter telephoned me, the fear of death had been expressed by the family. Life was realized, and in one hour she sat up in bed. She arose and dressed in the afternoon, and attended to all of her own housework the next morning.

The third is the case of a sweet little rosebud babe, whose young parents are studying this Science. The mother called about eight in the morning, "Come quick, my baby's arm is fractured, she is screaming with pain." By the time I reached the house, a few blocks away, quiet reigned. The young father had been called home from business. At ten o'clock he returned to his work, and the little one played about the floor as usual, laughing all the while, but did not use that arm until the next morning, when she threw both little arms around her mother's neck and kissed her—free! To say that my heart goes out in gratitude for the understanding which makes these things possible, is but a feeble expression of thought. I see more and more clearly that only as we follow your steps are we freed from the trammels of material belief.

In thinking over the lines of thought which are conducive to these proofs of Truth's power, it occurred to me that the activity of Truth accomplished the first; the realization of Life, divine energy, the second; and Love, the ever-present spiritual activity, the third,—Truth, Life, and Love. Then it dawned upon me, Surely these demonstrations shine with the clear white light of Truth. They are diamonds set in the circle of eternity. Then I thought of the ring I wanted to give you, and here it is, but after all, it is only giving you back your own,—the reflection of your own bright shining.

Humbly and gratefully yours,
Flora Belle Johnson.

MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.

Thanks. I value the spirit of your gift, above all things.

M. B. G. Eddy.

Oshkosh, Wis., August 8, 1905.
To the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—Among the unnumbered blessings which your chaste life has brought into mine, I count as especially priceless, certain pages from your message to The Mother Church, for June, 1901, under "No Reality in Evil or Sin" (pp. 19-24). These words have been my stay in dark hours, and when the claims of error seemed strongest, I have been wont to go to my room, and when alone with God, to read them aloud. They were always illumined to my thought, and each reading gave a clearer, stronger sense of God's allness and the nothingness of evil.

For this, dear Leader, and for manifold blessings received through Christian Science, I thank our Father-Mother God, and you, His faithful messenger to this age.

Lovingly your student's student.
Morris Philip Jones.

May I send this little handkerchief?

MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.

Thanks.—M. B. G. Eddy.

Brighton, Mass., June 10, 1905.
Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Beloved Leader:—Less than a year ago I was healed in Christian Science of melancholy. Out of the darkness there suddenly shone for me a great light,—the truth of spiritual being as explained in Science and Health. Since my healing I have again been greatly blessed of God in many ways. The freedom which Christian Science has brought to me is beyond words to express. Your writings—especially Science and Health—are to me pearls of great price.

Through the reading of them I am beginning to comprehend the inestimable worth of your life's labor to all mankind.

Please accept this expression of gratitude from one who has been rescued from the depths of despair through the truth which you have voiced to the world.

Sincerely yours,
Fred C. Wormelle.

Cedar Rapids, Ia., April 28, 1905.

Beloved Leader:—You may be pleased to know that a little band of workers away out here love you and our dear Cause and are trying to prove it by their works. We were able to send one hundred dollars to The Mother Church Building Fund at Christmas time, and fifty dollars a few days ago. This expresses but a portion of the love we feel for Christian Science,—God's precious gift to humanity through you, our beloved Leader.

Believe us, most lovingly yours,

Christian Science Students' Association.
Clara D. Lyman, Teacher.

Even in our commonest every-day work, we need the consciousness of His constant presence.

George MacDonald.