A Word To The Wise

         Will all the dear Christian Scientists accept my tender
         greetings for the forthcoming holidays, and grant me
20    this request,—let the present season pass without one
         gift to me.

         Our church edifice must be built in 1894. Take thither
         thy saintly offerings, and lay them in the outstretched
         hand of God. The object to be won affords ample oppor-
25    tunity for the grandest achievement to which Christian
         Scientists can direct attention, and feel themselves alone
         among the stars.

         No doubt must intervene between the promise and
         event; faith and resolve are friends to Truth; seize them,

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1      trust the divine Providence, push upward our prayer in
         stone,—and God will give the benediction.