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Beloved Leader: — Informally assembled, we, the ushers of your church, desire to express our recognition of the blessings that have come to us through the peculiar privileges we enjoy in this church work. We are prompted to acknowledge our debt of gratitude to you for your life of spirituality, with its years of tender ministry, yet we know that the real gratitude is what is proved in better lives.

It is our earnest prayer that we may so reflect in our thoughts and acts the teachings of Christian Science that our daily living may be a fitting testimony of the efficacy of our Cause in the regeneration of mankind. The Ushers of The Mother Church.&emsp;

Beloved Ushers of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist: — I thank you not only for your tender letter to me, but for ushering into our church the hearers and the doers of God's Word. &emsp;

Beloved Christian Scientists: — Accept my thanks for your successful plans for the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor. My desire is that every Christian