Hull, England. Sept. 10, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—We have so much to be grateful for that we feel impelled to send you an expression of our love and gratitude. Through the teachings of that wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the truth about God and ourselves is being revealed to us as the Comforter. You will like to know that Christian Science is making progress here, brightening and uplifting the lives of those who are learning to love it, and attracting more and more attention by its healing and saving power. A new Reading Room and library have just been acquired in the center of the city; an increasing appreciation of Christian Science is continually manifesting itself in the greater numbers present at all our meetings. The Sunday School is so full that we are compelled to ask for more commodious quarters. Several cases of healing by the children bring home forcibly the glorious privilege of being either a teacher or a scholar in the Sunday School. The vessels in our docks are now visited, and our literature, which thus finds its way to ports all over the world, is welcomed. The public libraries now receive five copies of the Journal and Sentinel regularly, thanks to the generosity of our Publishing Society in Boston, and Science and Health is in constant demand both in our own library and in those of the city.

These, dear Leader, are some of the visible signs of an increasing sense of the attractiveness and practicability of the Christ-healing to this age, and behind all these is a growing sense of unity and love among our members which makes life in Christian Science such a joy. A few days ago it was said to a practitioner, by a venerable man living in the same house as a patient (in alluding to Christian Scientists), "I never thought there were such people in the world." I only quote this to assure your loving heart of the earnest and sincere desire of the members of this church to follow in the footsteps of our Master by obediently proving their faith in God by their works, and by their love one to another.

Yours gratefully and lovingly, on behalf of First Church,

H. Boardman, First Reader.

Anamosa, Ia., Sept. 4, 1908.
Dear Mrs. Eddy:—My heart is overflowing with love and gratitude to you for showing us how to work out our own salvation "with fear and trembling;" how to "overcome evil with good;" how to interpret Jesus' sayings aright. I am trying to prove my love for you by being true to myself, and thus true to our Father-Mother God. I began to study your book, Science and Health, seven years ago, when I was healed in one week's treatment of rupture of twenty-five years' standing, with other troubles, after having paid out a great deal of money for an operation in Chicago that did no good whatever. But that is so little compared to the love of God that is finding its place in me. Like the old song, "it makes me love everybody," and I want to tell them that God is Love, as our baby lisps at night for her tiny prayer; and in the morning, "Good all day, mama." Through your love for all of God's little ones, you have taught us to say "Thy will be done" with a joyful heart instead of a tearful thought, knowing that goodness is happiness. I remain your loving and thankful disciple,

Lena H. Chamberlain.

Avalon, Santa Catalina Island. Sept. 5, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—You will be glad, I know, to hear of the work that has been done on this island of the Pacific. Several years ago, a few Christian Scientists who spent their summers here began to read the Lessons from the Quarterly in their tent Sunday mornings. These meetings increased in attendance and interest, and were held in a private tent until two years ago, when a tent was rented for Sunday morning and Wednesday evening services. This summer the tent was found to be inadequate for the purpose, and a hall was taken, where the meetings were well attended and much interest manifested. So much thankfulness was expressed by many that we could have our meetings, even at Catalina. Many testimonies of the power of Truth and Love to heal sin and disease were given in the Wednesday evening meetings. Within the last year several families who make their permanent home on the island have become interested in Christian Science, and hope to continue the Sunday morning services through the winter months.

I have long wished to express to you my gratitude for the teaching of Christian Science that has brought such practical abundant good into my life, and to all those who will accept the truth.

Sincerely yours,
A. Florence Mead.

Ballard Station, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 7, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—Knowing that you are glad to hear of faithful work done in Christian Science, I cannot longer resist the impulse to write you, that you may know of the progress of the work in this field. Six years ago, in the little city of Ballard, situated about six miles from Seattle, a few students of Christian Science met and organized First Church of Christ, Scientist. One year after its organization its members purchased the property known as the old Catholic church building, to be paid for in yearly payments. Although the membership was small, the payments were met, and the last one, which has just been made, was met before it came due. In the mean time the building has been repaired, the interior remodeled. Reading Rooms fitted up, and the whole suitably furnished.

During the past year, at the time when the congregation of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Seattle, had filled its building to overflowing, Ballard became annexed to and a part of Seattle. It was therefore according to the eternal fitness of things that First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ballard, should take its place as Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in Seattle. We are thankful to you, our dear Leader, for the understanding of Truth which makes these things possible. Through following the instructions given in your writings, we have been enabled to meet every emergency, and we know that through your writings is revealed the truth which will redeem the world. "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them," and through the warmth of Truth and Love, as shed forth in Christian Science, "the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose;" even the byways may become highways for our God. We feel the divine impulse to press on with you in the spirit of your life-purpose,—"to impress humanity with the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian Science" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 207). With a heart full of gratitude to God for Christian Science, and to our Leader. Lovingly,
E. Nora Yoder.

Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Sept. 6, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—It is gratitude which prompts me to acknowledge the good I have received from studying and applying Christian Science as taught in Science and Health. It has given me an understanding of man as made in God's image and likeness, in whom sin has no place. My daily desire is to follow your loving guidance, and not to allow any sense of disobedience to keep me from doing my duty to God, to you, and to mankind, as we are taught in the Manual of The Mother Church. There are only a few in this northwestern town who are studying Christian Science, but the good which one receives is immeasurable, when on Sunday morning we meet and read the Lesson-Sermon.

Jesus' command, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," led me, when I was sixteen, to have class instruction. Abiding in Love, which reaches the earth's remotest bound, I am,

A student of Christian Science,
Douglas Campbell.

Denver, Col., July 14, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—The Sentinel of July 11, containing a new By-law, "No Monopoly," has just been received. If any of your followers have ever doubted that these By-laws are "impelled by a power not one's own" (Preface to the Manual), they are now without excuse. God, in His infinite mercy, has stricken the scepter of limitation from the hands of the modern Constantine, and your people, God's chosen ones, are freed from the bondage to personality. They may now go forth as did David, the time having come. If I were a prophet, I should say that the millennium is near at hand.

Most gratefully yours,
Bret Harris.

Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 10, 1908.

Beloved Leader:—Only Love can enable me to give expression to my thought, as I try to thank you for your inspiring book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The chapter on "Prayer" healed me of a physical trouble, five years ago, and to-day I am trying to know more of the meaning of spiritual healing. I love and adore the holy Principle of all good as I never did before, and would bend low in prayerful thought, and in childlike humility and confidence, before the uplifted Christ. I am now learning to be grateful for all the sweet upward steps you are taking, and I long to be a better and purer reflection of divine Love, and to thank you by following the Christ more sincerely and obediently. I have given my life to the service of Truth, in whatever way God may lead, and I am striving to "pray without ceasing" and to let works attest the sincerity of my words.

God bless you. He holds you in His gentle keeping, and is even now giving you your unselfish desires,—the fruitage of deep consecration to God.

With humble gratitude, I long to be
Your faithful follower,
Beatrice F. Hutchinson.

Riverside, Cal., Sept. 14, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I am prompted to write to you and express, in part at least, my gratitude for many benefits received through the teachings of Christian Science as contained in your book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and your other writings. The last two paragraphs from the letter "To a Student," in "Miscellaneous Writings," at the top of page 158, have been particularly helpful to me. They came to me as a personal message when the way was very dark, when I longed for more than human guidance, which is seldom free from prejudice, and they brought light and peace. It is said that even a straw, tossed into a flooded river, will indicate, according to whether it floats along the margin or out into midstream, if the water is rising or falling. May this, even though it be but a little word, be one more indication that the floods of error are receding.

In loving gratitude,
Jessephene Johnson.

Rockford, Ill., Sept. 13, 1908.

Beloved Leader:—Permit me to offer a few words of gratitude for the recent By-law entitled "Numbering the People." Past experience having taught us the fruits obtained by obedience, it was decided to cease numbering the pupils of the Sunday School. We are learning that only by strict obedience can we prove that we are truly grateful. God surely nourishes that which He has planted, and the increase is sure. That I may ever be awake to follow so faithful a Leader, is my desire.

Elsie B. Carveth.

Boston, Mass., Aug. 28, 1908.

Beloved Leader and Teacher:—In contemplating your great mission, and the onward march of the Christian Science movement, I feel that there is much cause for rejoicing. It is more than twenty years since I had class instruction from you, and I thank God daily for this great privilege. I am striving to know more of the Christ that heals and saves through us, in the ratio that we understand Christian Science as discovered and taught by you.

Ever your loving student,
Berenice H. Goodall.

Plainfield, Ill.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—After reading in the September Journal the article, "The Divine Idea and the Human Concept," I cannot help but write you a loving and most humble "I thank you." I thank you for having made possible the Sentinel and the Journal, with these written words in them which send us singing on our way, for your own inspiring words, and for the divine idea made visible to man.

Lovingly yours,
Mrs. Edith S. Stewart.