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ANY forward movement, or one regarded as such by those participating in it, always meets with opposition more or less strenuous, according to its nature and the extent to which it seeks to overturn previously formed beliefs or ideas. In no field of knowledge or experience has this been found to a greater extent than in matters of religious belief and teaching, and in no other has the opposition to any change of or interference with preconceived ideas or beliefs and practices been more intolerant or vicious.

[In response to a request by The Independent, following the unfounded statements as to her illness, Mrs. Eddy has been good enough to send us this article, which we have received in her own handwriting, and which shows none of that tremulous unevenness which often appears in the chirography of a person of her age, she being in her eighty-sixth year.

The story that Mrs. Mary Baker G.

It is often remarked that Christian Scientists frequently quote the 91st Psalm and that they appear to have a marked preference for it. It is true that they find much comfort in this psalm, and the reason seems to be that it contains so much in the nature of a direct and positive message to suffering mortals.

A Young man came to Jesus as he went about doing good, preaching the gospel and healing the sick, and said unto him, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" The question indicated that this young man regarded eternal life as something to be attained in the future, and he desired to know of the Master whether, according to his teachings, he had done all that was required of him. He believed that of himself it was possible to do some good thing whereby he might receive, because he deserved, the greatest of blessings.

We have no record that Jesus did any healing works until after his baptism by the Holy Ghost. It is therefore of vital importance for all who desire to follow in his steps, to ascertain what this baptism is, how he obtained it, and how it can be attained to-day.

Some of its hasty critics, without giving the subject proper attention, find fault with Christian Science because in its scientific analysis of the human problem it treats the conditions known as matter and evil as negative quantities. A respectful investigation would reveal that Christian Science does not differ in this method from the sciences of music and mathematics.

Beloved Christian Scientists :—Keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full.

In reading the account of the three Hebrew captives the impression generally received seems to be that nothing about them was touched by the fire. There was one thing, however, upon which the fire did seem to have some effect.

Every student of Christian Science sooner or later wakes to the fact that he has been standing among those of whom Christ Jesus said, "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?" and when Truth calls him to come out from among them, it dawns on his awakened consciousness that the very words and phrases which he had repeated so glibly under his former religious teaching—of whatever denomination he may have been a member—are only to be fully understood when taken in the simple and literal sense he had never once thought of attaching to them. Our text-book teaches us that we need to gain the understanding of a "perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration" (Science and Health, p.