Asheville, N. C., Aug. 8, 1909.

Beloved Leader:—We, the members of the Christian Science society of Asheville, N. C., send you our devoted love and gratitude for you marvelous example and demonstration of divine Love, and for the final and complete revelation of Truth which God has given to the world through you.

You are teaching us to comprehend the faith and patience of Jesus: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

With sincere and tender affection,
Elizabeth Earl Jones,
Annie C. Bridgers,
Committee.

Delanson, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1909.

Beloved Leader:—May I express to you my deep gratitude for our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." For fourteen years it has been my daily friend and companion, in my former work of teaching little children, and in six years of work for the Cause of Christian Science in Germany. I am constantly impressed with the fact of how much better—more clearly, more concisely, and more beautifully—you have expressed the truth it contains, than any one else can. My highest thoughts of love and gratitude, and every treatment, audible or silent, come to me clothed in the language of Science and Health. Having been educated from childhood to familiarity with the text of the Bible, I find this wonderful book the golden key to all its treasures.

Beloved Leader, words cannot express my gratitude to you for your holy life and for your loving, watchful care over us, your church. May it be a tiny crumb of comfort to you to know that one, among the thousands you have "redeemed unto God," is trying to "follow and rejoice" along the way that is less rugged because you have traveled it first.

Your loving, loyal follower,
Anne Le Baron Drumm.

Chicago, Ill., Aug. 7, 1909.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—As the board of directors of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, we desire to convey to you, in behalf of the members, gratitude and appreciation for the new by-law regarding reading-rooms.

It seemed to meet especially a need in our field, for in the week preceding the issuance of the by-law, the arrangement to have practitioners in connection with our local reading-room had been completed. Although we were very enthusiastic over our new plan, we are grateful for having had uncovered to us that which might have hindered our greatest spiritual growth. At our meeting this evening we decided to notify the practitioners at once of our intention to adhere strictly to the new by-law, and that their connection with the reading-room as practitioners ceased from this date.

Board of Directors of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Delia Howe, Clerk.

Toledo, O., July 21, 1909.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—We, the members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Toledo, O., desire to express to you our loving gratitude for the blessings that have come to us through the study of your writings. We realize that only as we, individually, turn away from personality to divine Principle for guidance, and strive each day to build up in consciousness the church defined in Science and Health (p. 583), "which affords proof of its utility" by healing the sick; and as we fulfil the promise we have made in the sixth tenet, "To watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure" (Science and Health, p. 497); and only as we study diligently and prayerfully the Manual, and are obedient thereto, are we helping to build the true church—the church triumphant.

Lovingly and loyally,
Marie Chalmers Ford,
Paul Arthur Harsch,
Committee.

Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 4, 1909. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—My heart is overflowing with gratitude for the meekness, humility, and selfessness with which you are leading us from personality to Principle, out of darkness into the light of Truth. I clearly see this is our salvation. For all of your late articles, and for the by-laws, I thank you. They have appeared at the time most needed and are guides to righteousness. Obedience is the "open sesame" to the treasures of Truth, and my daily prayer is to yield glad, joyful obedience to all of your teachings, thereby gaining grace for the day.

Lovingly and loyally,
Annie G. Nehls.

Parsons, Kan., July 17, 1909.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—My heart overflows in gratitude to God, and to you, His beloved messenger, for giving us that wonderful text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Words are inadequate to express the joy that its teaching has brought to me, and to the many others of which I hear so often. This book is certainly the "Key" which unlocks the Scriptures, for never before was I able to demonstrate the power of divine Love in the overcoming of sin and sickness. You have proved to us that "God is Love," and in Him "is no darkness at all;" and you have surely shown us how to prove it for ourselves. I can never express thanks enough to God for leading us so firmly to Truth through you, dear Mrs. Eddy. Christian Science has healed me physically and uplifted me spiritually, and I am certainly happy to tell you and others what it has done for me.

Most sincerely,
Florence Reinhart.

Boston, Mass., July 26, 1909.

Beloved Leader:—This afternoon I visited our new publishing house for the first time. It was all so interesting, and I wish you could see it. We went to the press room just as the last edition of the Monitor was coming out. It would please you to see the perfect order and the workmen's happy faces; the great roll of paper at one end of the press and the folded newspapers coming out at the other end. One young man was whistling so happily that I spoke of him, and was told he is an usher in The Mother Church. The engine-room was clean and orderly, and the rooms throughout the building very bright. One of the workers said they wished every subscriber to the building fund could know how the workers appreciated the new quarters, and my heart is full of gratitude to you, dear Leader, for the work that has made all these things possible.

I am more grateful each day for all your love to me, and so glad I could have the great privilege of being with you. Mr. Scott joins me in tender love to you.

Lovingly your student,
Minnie A. Scott.

Trondhjem, Norway, July 29, 1909.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—Humbly I wish to express my gratitude for the great light which has dawned upon me since I commenced to study your teachings. The first time I read in Science and Health I was instantaneously healed, by the quickening work of Truth, of a disease of long standing, and since then all things have become new. In nearly thirty years of life I know of no greater change in my life than was brought about when a friend in Paris, France, loaned me your book one evening. How wonderfully Love works! At first I wanted to undertake great things. I would, presumptuously, translate your books. I wanted to bring about wonderful healing, and all of it immediately. Since then I have learned, sometimes with humiliation, that to follow you, as you follow Christ, means patience and unceasing watchfulness, as well as persistent effort to be, rather than to do, and that there is nothing to Christian Science but love.

I want to thank you this once in words for your faithfulness, for the bright and beautiful vista of the future, and then to trust absolute Principle for the proof of my gratitude. With tender respect, Carl S. Sather.

New York, N. Y., July 27, 1909.

Dear Leader:—Just a few words, to express my gratitude for The Christian Science Monitor and the wholesome reading it imparts, and particularly for the article on Christian Science, which I find most helpful and look forward to each morning, as a message full of truth. The Monitor, with its broad charity, and good food for all, will grow, and to "the full grain in the ear."

Faithfully yours,
(Mrs.) Roberta V. Sanner.

London, England, July 2, 1909.

Dear Leader:—It seems so impossible to frame any words in which to express one's gratitude and love to you for what you have done and are doing. This morning it seems as if joy must find expression in a letter of thanks. You have taught me to delight "in the law of the Lord," and real happiness has been realized; and though at times there seems to be a desperate struggle with self, the visits to the mountain-tops are more and more prolonged, where mortal sense is lost in spiritual sight.

Yours in the one great love,
B. C. Talbot.

Chicago, Ill., Aug. 5, 1909.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—My heart is so full of love and gratitude to you today, that I feel I must try to tell you of it. I have been studying Christian Science about five years, and they have been the happiest years I have ever known. I learned early in my study of Christian Science to look on each (seeming) trial as a blessing,—for they are all blessings in disguise,—and if I looked hard enough and long enough (if necessary), that I would see the blessing and give thanks. So I have gotten into the habit of giving thanks for the power of Truth, whenever anything seems to attack me, and my demonstrations have almost always been instantaneous. I am grateful every day for the lessons of love and obedience that I am learning constantly. This morning, after repeating some selections from Science and Health, these words came to me: God gave man dominion. I said: Yes, God gave me dominion over this and every other condition, and nothing mortal or material can hold me down. Then perfect harmony prevailed, and I felt that I must express my gratitude to you, even if in so small a way. I realize that I am showing my gratitude to you best as I live each day to the best of my understanding and strive to love more and to be obedient.

Sincerely,
Jane C. Van Hoesen.