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MARY BAKER EDDY

The following letter from the Clerk of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Manchester, England, is indeed interesting.

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Christmas for the Children

Mary Baker Eddy

Methinks the loving parents and guardians of youth ofttimes query: How shall we cheer the children's Christmas and profit them withal?

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At a time when many are wont to yield their thought to a retrospection which leads them into the cheerless haunts to regret, they that be wise will turn away from every temptation to self-depreciation or self-excuse, and follow the loving counsel of our Leader, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts".

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"Thy light is come."

Annie M. Knott

While listening to the singing of "The Messiah" recently, a message from our beloved Leader to one of the branch churches, at the time of its dedication, was recalled, in which she quoted words, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

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"Signs of the times."

Archibald McLellan

The world is waking up to the fact that the healing of the sick is a necessary part of our Master's gospel, and that this sign of the times is not escaping the attention of the newspapers will be seen by the following quotation from an influential paper of the Middle West.

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A Greeting from England

Gertrude Dunmore with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy

London, England, November 21, 1905.

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The Gain of a Spiritual View

John B. Willis

A Materialistic interpretation of history always tends to lessen the inspiring and uplifting influence of its great events.

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"The effect of righteousness"

Annie M. Knott

Does any one question what must be the "effect of righteousness"?

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A Full Salvation

Archibald McLellan

The healing of the sick through Christian Science is now largely acknowledged and accepted as the legitimate outcome of the teachings of Science and Health, but many who are cognizant of this healing are not so well informed regarding the reforming and spiritualizing effect the teachings of this book have had upon a large number who had drifted away from their faith in God and to whom the Bible had become a closed book.

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Greetings from Germany

Countess Fanny von Moltke with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy

Bad Sachsa am Harz, Hermannklause, Deutschland, November 24, 1905.

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Church By-law

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Article XI.

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"How long halt ye between two opinions?"

ANNIE M. KNOTT

AT a recent religious gathering in the English metropolis, the Bishop of London gave his views on the subject of Christian Science at some length, and is reported to have said, among other things, that "by invigorating the faith, the hope, and the courage, they had great effect upon the bodily condition of the patient in many cases," and he added that in this sense he was "in agreement with Christian Science.