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A Large and interesting audience gathered last night at the First Presbyterian church to hear Prof. Olin Templin of the State university lecture on the subject of "Hypnotism.

Santa Claus is under the ban in Janesville. Has the jolly saint been "churched"? It looks that way.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Looking backward down the vista of time, till thought rests with mingled awe and joy upon the central event of all history, the first Christmas, with its accompanying message of holy peace to all men, does not one overshadowing question present itself to all who thus journey back through the centuries, to consider and ponder the deep lesson taught by the nativity of the Virgin-born babe of Bethlehem? Of what present and individual significance, is this event to me? Is its import simply historical, or is its essence spiritual and of hourly value to me as a child of God? Prophesied by the seers of Hebrew history, and appearing in the divine order of spiritual unfolding, "He came unto his own and his own received him not. " By men, he was first seen as a babe in the manger of humility and lowly estate, at twelve, the confounder of the scholastics in the temple at Jerusalem, later, a carpenter or builder preparing to enter the arena of human affairs, that he might teach men the Science of Being, the building of the heavenly character "after the pattern shown in the Mount," and finally, the" Light of the world," and great Victor over sin, disease and death.

"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. " Col.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor.

The question convulsing the world is, What is Truth? Many honest searchers willing to "try the spirits whether they be of God," exclaim in bewilderment, Wherewith shall we try them? since all claim an origin in God. Among the grandest and the most encouraging facts of revelation is this, that there is no speech nor language where the voice of Truth is not heard.

Hon. Charles Carrol Bonney, President of World's Congress Auxiliary, in his remarks before that body said: "No more striking manifestation of the interposition of Divine Providence in human affairs has come in recent years, than that shown in the raising up of the body of people known as Christian Scientists, who were called to declare the real harmony between religion and science, and to restore the waning faith of many in the verities of the sacred Scriptures.

We have pleasure in presenting to the field as a frontispiece in this number, a photographic reproduction of a pen-drawing by the architect, of the church edifice of the "Mother Church,"—"The First Church of Christ, Scientist," in Boston, now being erected at the convergence of Caledonia with Falmouth street. It is, of course, impossible to give, by either picture or description, more than a general idea of this structure.

Whatever comes from the pen of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy is certain to find a large circle of appreciative readers.