[We are glad to publish the following grateful letter from one who is blind and who has read "Rudimental Divine Science" in the embossed types. In announcing this edition of our Leader's book, we said, "Mrs. Eddy's 'writings have proved a blessing to all who have studied them carefully, with the desire to put their teachings into practice, and the demand for the extension of their help to another class of readers is further evidence of the work she is doing for humanity." That the author is receiving such letters of appreciation from those for whose benefit the book was issued, is proof that it is meeting a need.—Editor.]

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I wish to express my gratitude for the dear little book, "Rudimental Divine Science," which has just been published in the New York point. Truly the "everlasting arms of Love are around, beneath, above."

I daily read it, and my prayer is that for this blessing I may be truly grateful by demonstrating more and more love.

Yours tenderly,

Orleans, Mass.

Orissa S. Linnell.

Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 11, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—With our hearts full of gratitude for the great blessing which has been bestowed on mankind through your labor of love in giving to the world Christian Science, we desire to tell you of a small demonstration which proves to us the necessity of realizing the fact that the time for work is now. After resuming the usual work of the Sunday School, at the close of a vacation of two months, the pupils, sixty in number, decided by unanimous vote to contribute one hundred dollars to The Mother Church Building Fund. The amount then in the treasury was forty-one dollars and six cents. No mention was made as to the time of completing this demonstration. After the expiration of ten weeks, the treasury showed sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents, an average contribution of two dollars and a half per Sunday. At that time an editorial in the Sentinel, under date of Nov. 25, 1905, headed "The Building Fund," was taken into consideration, and in accordance with the request contained therein, on Dec. 3, 1905, the superintendent of the Sunday School requested the pupils to consider the advisability of completing their demonstration of one hundred dollars toward The Mother Church Building Fund by Christmas, and after a few moments of such consideration, it was unanimously decided to complete this demonstration at the aforesaid time.

The pupils being advised to reflect Love, as set forth in your teachings, the response was immediate; the contributions more than doubled, the amount in the treasury at the end of the three weeks following being ninety-six dollars and forty-two cents, an increase of over twenty-nine dollars. The children, after learning of the deficiency, at once decided to complete their demonstration, and in consequence asked for one week's grace, and accordingly the demonstration was completed.

All the contributions are gifts and demonstrations of love. Yours gratefully and lovingly,

Sunday School, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Milwaukee, Wis., R. C. S., Superintendent.

Carthage, Mo., Feb. 7, 1906.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—The members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Carthage, Mo., desiring to express our gratitude for the establishment of our church through the guidance of divine Love, and also our love and gratitude to you for your unceasing labor and prayer in showing us the way through Christian Science, send a short history of our work in establishing this church.

In August, 1904, a little band of four loyal Christian Scientists met at a private residence and held their first Christian Science service. The meetings continued to increase in interest and attendance, and on Jan. 1, 1905, we organized a society with an average attendance of twenty-three. We then rented a hall in which to hold our meetings. The following September we became incorporated as First Church of Christ, Scientist, Carthage, Mo., with fifteen members and an attendance as high as thirty-six. Shortly after, we established our Wednesday evening meeting and our Reading Room. Our Sunday School is small in numbers, but not in understanding, as the children seem to grasp the simple truth readily. Last Thanksgiving it was a pleasure to send a small sum to The Mother Church Building Fund. We shall give a lecture soon, as we feel that it is greatly needed. Carthage is a city of twelve thousand inhabitants and this is the first work in Christian Science which has been done in this place. We are not making rapid strides, but progressing slowly and surely, as the field is broad. "If God be for us, who can be against us?"

Mrs. Martha B. Sayler, Clerk.

Louisville, Ky., Jan. 10, 1906.

With love to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Louisville, Ky., submits the following report: It is with gratitude that we not the proofs of progress to be seen in the record of the church for the year 1905, first among which was the union of the two churches, by the decision of the Second to disband and make individual demonstration of one Church of Christ, Scientist, in Louisville. Accordingly, the second Sunday in January, 1905. found us all "with one accord in one place." A further indication of progress may be seen in the greater numbers visiting our Reading Room, both of those investigating and those seeking the healing, also in the increased sale and distribution of literature, the sales of our text-book having been forty-nine copies during the year. There has been no lack financially, divine Love having supplied every need, and besides meeting all current expenses three hundred and fifty dollars has been sent to The Mother Church Building Fund.

According to the decision of the Board of Trustees, the regular collection on the last Sunday of the quarter, commencing with April, has been set aside as a fund for the distribution of literature in the State, subject to the order of the Publication Committee. Through the prompt action on the part of our Publication Committee in refuting adverse criticisms, and a greater willingness on the part of the press to receive and publish such matter, Christian Science is becoming better understood, therefore more in favor with the public.

Grateful for the steps already taken, we move on to greater victories, and "in patient obedience to a patient God," we "labor to dissolve, with the universal solvent of Love, the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love" (Science and Health, p. 242).

Florence G. Merrow, Clerk.

Moscow, Idaho, Dec. 15, 1905.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Revered Leader:—We, the children of the Christian Science Sunday School, of Moscow, Idaho, as an expression of loyalty to Christian Science, send twenty-five dollars to the Treasurer for the Building Fund of The Mother Church, with the earnest desire to have a part in the Church Building. We are few in number, but, we trust, great in promise. We send our contribution with a prayer of love that it will increase an hundredfold to supply the need. With great gratitude and love to you, from

The Children.
By Mrs. Amelia Oppenheim.