The National Christian Scientist Association has

brought us together to minister and to be ministered [10]

unto; mutually to aid one another in finding ways and

means for helping the whole human family; to quicken

and extend the interest already felt in a higher mode of

medicine; to watch with eager joy the individual growth

of Christian Scientists, and the progress of our common [15]

Cause in Chicago,—the miracle of the Occident. We

come to strengthen and perpetuate our organizations

and institutions; and to find strength in union,—strength