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In listening to the conversation of some of the little folks, the idea suggested itself, to visit the children's class of our Sunday School, and ask the children for some of their thoughts. So, with the kind permission of their teacher, I took my seat with them to learn of the allness of God.

A young medical student from the South attending lectures in this city tells how he cured a patient who was suffering from a curious ailment. The patient was an old negro, who for many weeks had been gradually wasting away from no apparent cause, says the New York Times.

All over Christendom is told the tale of one who was called by the endearing name of Rabboni-Master. Multitudes followed, and would make him King, but he passed by, unmoved by the breath of praise.

Of late there has been, manifestly, a moving of the waters, causing a strong impulse to awaken the interest of the field in the erection of the dear Mother Church in Boston, making it as wide-spread as Truth itself, for which it is to stand as a perpetual witness through all generations. Since Christian Science is the universal panacea for every mortal discord, the destroyer of sin, sickness, and death, it is  universal salvation; and the thought coupled with the subject is that of Love's demand for universal, free-will offerings to this effect.

We have heard an amusing but altogether authentic tale of a very wealthy and pious lady who cautioned a friend not to have anything to do with "Christian Science," not because it was a system of quackery and delusion, but because it had the word "science" in its designation. "I confess, dear," she said most earnestly, "I don't like that word 'science.

From childhood my thoughts turned toward God, and my desire was to be His child,—to be good. This desire was fostered by praying parents, and I was brought up after the manner of the "strictest sect" from my earliest recollection.

My first acquaintance with the subject of Christian Science was about three years ago, while in college, preparing for the ministry. The usual break-down from over study came and drove me through a course of doctors, medicine, dieting; proper exercise, etc.

But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. — Acts xxvi.

The religious world seems to be going through (to them) a serious chemicalization, which is watched with no little interest by the lookers-on. To the Christian Scientist it is becoming particularly interesting, as he reads, in the general upheaval, "the signs of the times," the eventual annihilation of false doctrines, and a lifting up of the Christ theology!   Clipped from Toledo Blade.

We are the recipients of good news from the old world,— so good, we want to share it with all the Journal readers. Miss Annie Dodge, of London, writes: "The revised Science and Health has been placed in the following libraries in Great Britain and the Continent: London.