ing it, but was finally
led, by a strange providence, to accept this fee.

God has since shown me, in multitudinous ways, the wisdom of this decision;
and I beg disinterested people to ask my loyal students if they consider
three hundred dollars any real equivalent for my instruction during twelve
half-days, or even in half as many lessons. Nevertheless, my list of
indigent charity scholars is very large, and I have had as many as
seventeen in one class.

Loyal students speak with delight of their pupilage, and of what it has
done for them, and for others through them. By loyalty in students I mean
this,--allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine,
steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love.

I see clearly that students in Christian Science should, at present,
continue to organize churches, schools, and associations for the
furtherance and unfolding of Truth, and that my necessity is not
necessarily theirs; but it was the Father's opportunity for furnishing a
new rule of order in divine Science, and the blessings which arose
therefrom. Students are not environed with such obstacles as were
encountered in the beginning of pioneer work.

In December, 1889, I gave a lot of land in Boston to my student, Mr. Ira O.
Knapp of Roslindale,--valued in 1892 at about twenty thousand dollars, and
rising in value,--to be appropriated for the erection, and building on the
premises thereby conveyed, of a church edifice to be used as a temple for
Christian Science worship.

GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS, AND OUR MAGAZINE

For many successive years I have endeavored to find new ways and means for
the promotion and expansion of scientific Mind-healing, seeking to broaden
its channels and, if possible, to build a hedge round about it that should
shelter its perfections from the contaminating influences of those who have
a small portion of its letter and less of its spirit. At the same time I
have worked to provide a home for every true seeker and honest worker in
this vineyard of Truth.

To meet the broader wants of humanity, and provide folds for the sheep that
were without shepherds, I suggested to my students, in 1886, the propriety
of forming a National Christian Scientist Association. This was immediately
done, and delegations from the Christian Scientist Association of the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and from branch associations in other
States, met in general convention at New Yor