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310 childish pleasure of studying Truth through the senses, for this is neither the intent of my works nor possible in Science.

Even the teachings of Jesus would be misused by substituting personality for the Christ, or the impersonal form of Truth, amplified in this age by the discovery of Christian Science. To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence — rather than cling to personality — is the lesson of to-day.

My answer to manifold letters relative to the return of members that have gone out of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is this; While my affections plead for all and every one, and my desire is that all shall be redeemed, I am not unmindful that the Scriptures enjoin, “Let all things be done decently and in order.”

To continue one's connection with this church, or to regain it, one must comply with the church rules. All who desire its fellowship, and to become members of it, must send in their petitions to this effect to the Clerk of the church; and upon a meeting being called, the First Members will determine the action of the church on this subject.

In this receding year of religious jubilee, 1894, I as an individual would cordially invite all persons who have left our fold, together with those who never have