Boston, Mass., Oct. 31, 1908.

Beloved Leader: — I do not believe you will ever know what it meant to me to have you see me to-day. It was so unexpected, so unsought, mentally or otherwise; it was wholly the result of your perception of my need and the outpouring of your love. Not in years have I seen you look so well and strong, and I am grateful to God for this manifestation of His continued care for you. Every day do the people rise more and more to call you "blessed," and every day, through renewed consecration, am I striving the better to live the love you have taught, that all who run may see it manifested and know that Christian Science is the Comforter that God has sent to the world, through you, to save it from self. My love, my loyalty, and devotion are more than ever all yours, and I know my lecture tonight will be the best I have ever delivered. Your rebuke of the tears which you saw so near the surface was merited, but I never yield, dear Leader, and more and more am knowing that I can never be separated from anything I love that is good and true.

God bless you, our dear one, and keep you, as ever in all your ways.

Devotedly your student,

Frank H. Leonard.

Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 29, 1908.

Wise and Beloved Leader: — How I thank you out of my heart's deepest affection for the words from Colossians, 3 : 24, with which you annotated the letter we sent reporting progress. It is wonderful how you know what is needed for the comfort and guidance of your friends and servants in this work. Unless our Monitor expresses more than business success and wisdom of human minds, what than business success and wisdom of human minds, what is our labor worth? Amid the contending ambitions of many minds comes like music the reassurance, "Ye serve the Lord Christ." This truly is the purpose of the enterprise, namely, to serve mankind by bringing thought into loving obedience to the Christ-mind. I mark on the margin Fenton's translation of 2 Corinthians, 10 : 4-6.

"For the weapons of our campaign are not corporeal: but powers from God, for the purpose of destroying fortresses; defeating opponents, and every pride exalting itself against the knowledge of God; and subduing every thought to the discipline of the Messiah; and competent to expel every mutineer, so that your discipline may be perfect."

Lovingly ever,

Wm. P. McKenzie.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 19, 1908.

Beloved Leader:— The proposed publication of a daily paper by The Christian Science Publishing Society is cause for rejoicing all over the Field. Every practitioner will give thanks that the news of current events can thus be read by those taking treatment, without having their days darkened by the details of vice and crime, of disasters and deaths. Every busy man will be glad to keep an eye on the world, without getting both eyes black and blue before he goes to work. All homes will be enlightened by the daily entrance of a paper bringing good news.

To add a daily paper to the Christian Science publications already spreading the gospel of salvation over the world, gives a satisfying sense of completeness to the great work of the Publishing Society. The members of the Publication Committees in the cities and states constitute an able corps of correspondents. Here in Washington, in addition to our Publication Committee, we have in our church two or three members who are regular correspondents of the press. The infinite possibilities for good of a Christian Science daily, and the fact that the Monitor has your approval, is another reason for rejoicing in the practical wisdom of your leadership. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," — and only blessings flow, — in whom all being is, and is all-harmonious.

May the Comforter enfold you and hold you safely and gently in divine Love and Life.

Faithfully yours,

William Holman Jennings.

Riverside, Cal., Oct. 24, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Eddy: — Having been a newspaper journalist until a year ago, when I entered upon the practice of Christian Science, I am quite naturally very keenly interested in the tidings from headquarters which tell us there is soon to be a daily newspaper conducted along the lines of the Christian Science ideal. Long have I recognized the need of a daily paper that could and would serve as a reliable criterion for others throughout the world, and especially in the United States. Now I feel that the need is about to be met, and I know that soon after the inauguration of this important enterprise, the world of real thinkers, of whatever denomination, will rise up and call the Monitor blessed. As I look forward to columns of daily print tha will disclose the truth in a truthful way, that will uplift morals and will prove to the reading public there is righteous dignity and cleanness in newspaper journalism, my heart goes out in augmented gratitude for the power of Christian Science, the healing truth which you, beloved Leader, have made available for use among the children of men.

God certainly does wonderfully sustain you and your noble and tireless corps of assistants at headquarters, who are every hour accomplishing so much for the elevation and purification of the race. Allowing this same God to manage the affairs of a newspaper means more of good to the twentieth and succeeding centuries than can at present be legitimately estimated.

Lovingly,

Stokes Anthony Bennett.

Bristol, England, October, 1908.

Beloved Leader: — It is our happy privilege to inform you that First Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city, is now fully organized under the recent By-law, a large proportion of the number being members of The Mother Church. It was from this ancient seaport of the West of England, so history tells us, that John Cabot sailed on the fateful voyage that led him to the shores of that far-off land which claims you as its honored citizen, and thus it is the more appropriate that we rejoice to-day over some realization of the glorious promise which has come to us from those same distant shores, in your thrice blessed discovery of Christian Science.

To every faithful pioneer of this hallowed truth there comes inevitably, as he presses on towards the fruition of its glad tidings, some faint appreciation of what you, our much loved Leader, have met and overcome in establishing the grand and holy Cause in which to-day we share your triumph. So, dear Leader, in all steadfastness and true humility, we rejoicingly send you the assurance that the members of this church will ever seek faithfully to follow you in your uplifting of the healing Christ and "bring forth therefore fruits" in "signs follwoing." In love and lowliness we would remember and live your message : "Forget self in laboring for mankind ; then will you woo the weary wanderer to your door, win the pilgrim and stranger to your church, and find access to the heart of humanity" (Miscellanewous Writings, p. 155).

In assimilating and practising the teachings you have given us, may we accept your invitation, "Drink with me the living waters of the spirit of my life-purpose, — to impress humanity with the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian Science" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 207); and thus attain in due time to that understanding of the spiritual idea which, as you have written on page 566 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," shall "guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God."

In loving loyalty to God and His Christ, to you and our Cause,

John E. G. Sandford, First Reader,

Lilian Dester, Second Reader,

William A. Chase, clerk.

Bowie, Tax., Oct. 19, 1908.

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

Beloved Leader: — I have just read in the Sentinel the announcement of our Publishing Society, that they would shortly issue a daily newspaper to be known as The Chrstian Monitor. As business man who feels the necessity of keeping in touch world's prgress and daily events of importance, allow me to express my sincere gratitude that this step has become possible. To your faithful followers all over the world it comes as an added evidence — to the many already given us — that through divine guidance your leadership brings us nearer each day to our rightful heritage, Truth and Love supplying our

Ever sincerely and gratefully yours,

Leroy C. Gibbon.