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  	OVERFLOWING THOUGHTS 

  	    In this receding year of religious jubilee, 1894, I as
27	an individual would cordially invite all persons who
  	have left our fold, together with those who never have
 
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 1	been in it, — all who love God and keep His command-
  	ments, — to come and unite with The Mother Church in
 3	Boston. The true Christian Scientists will be welcomed,
  	greeted as brethren endeavoring to walk with us hand
  	in hand, as we journey to the celestial city. 
 6	    Also, I would extend a tender invitation to Christian
  	Scientists' students, those who are ready for the table of
  	our Lord:  so, should we follow Christ's teachings; so,
 9	bury the dead past; so, loving one another, go forth to
  	the full vintage-time, exemplifying what we profess. But
  	some of the older members are not quite ready to take
12	this advanced step in the full spirit of that charity which
  	thinketh no evil; and if it be not taken thus, it is impracti-
  	cal, unfruitful, Soul-less. 
15	    My deepest desires and daily labors go to prove that
  	I love my enemies and would help all to gain the abiding
  	consciousness of health, happiness, and heaven. 
18	    I hate no one; and love others more than they can
  	love me. As I now understand Christian Science, I would
  	as soon harm myself as another; since by breaking
21	Christ's command, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
  	thyself," I sh...ould lose my hope of heaven. 
  	    The works I have written on Christian Science con-
24	tain absolute Truth, and my necessity was to tell it;
  	therefore I did this even as a surgeon who wounds
  	to heal. I was a scribe under orders; and who can
27	refrain from transcribing what God indites, and ought
  	not that one to take the cup, drink all of it, and give
  	thanks? 
30	    Being often reported as saying what never escaped
  	from my lips, when rehearsing facts concerning others
  	who were reporting false charges, I have been sorry that
 
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 1	I spoke at all, and wished I were wise enough to guard
  	against that temptation. Oh, may the love that is talked,
 3	be felt! and so lived, that when weighed in the scale of
  	God we be not found wanting. Love is consistent, uni-
  	form, sympathetic, self-sacrificing, unutterably kind; even
 6	that which lays all upon the altar, and, speechless and
  	alone, bears all burdens, suffers all inflictions, endures
  	all piercing for the sake of others, and for the kingdom
 9	of heaven's sake. 
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