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SINCE the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science "won" her "way to absolute conclusions" (Science and Health, p. 109), nearly half a century ago, and gave the world the result of this experience in the Christian Science text-book, the opinions of eminent physicists regarding matter have suffered a radical transformation.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient, obsolete, and pernicious order of life. If free men would not rely on that which has no power and is always fettered — upon external aids— but would trust in that which is always powerful and free — the truth and its expression! If only men were boldly and clearly to express the truth already manifest to them of the brotherhood of all nations, and the crime of exclusive devotion to one's own people, defunct, false public opinion would slough off of itself like a dried skin, and the new public opinion would stand forth, which is even now but awaiting that dropping off of the old to put forth manifestly and powerfully its demands and establish new forms of existence in conformity with the consciousness of mankind.

THE night breeze has gathered in its cool embrace the many fragrances of the warm summer day, and wafting them across the meadows, gently filters through the thick foliage of the trees and sinks away toward a sky banked with varied grays. The trees whisper to the wind as they sway in their sleep, and the river underneath the boughs cradles and rocks their sombre reflections slowly to stillness.

Shall it be denied that a system which works according to the Scriptures has Scriptural authority? — Science and Health, p. 342.

IT is inevitable that comparisons should be made between Christian Science and other methods of healing the sick, as well as other forms of religious belief; indeed the religionist and the physician have long been engaged in calling attention to the difference between them. They have not hesitated to contrast Christian Science with creed-orthodoxy and drug-orthodoxy, by means of striking juxtaposition; all, presumably, with the intent of disparaging Christian metaphysics.

There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. —Paul THE human mind is deeply stirred to-day with the longing for better things, for honesty, righteousness, freedom; the aspiration for spirituality is abroad in the whole world, and the crumbling of an effete scholastic theology which for centuries has hampered spiritual progress, is one of the pregnant signs of the times.

Despite the clouds which appear from time to time in our social atmosphere, I seem to become sensible more and more of a luminous atmosphere of faith, which, like the ether that we breathe, overhangs and envelops us all. This is faith, not in forms of belief, but in the infinite good to attain which must ever constitute the greatest effort of which humanity is capable.

THE true attitude of Christian Scientists towards materia medica and its practitioners is not always correctly apprehended. On the contrary, it is quite generally misunderstood by that large majority who have not taken the pains to inform themselves accurately on the subject.

Allow me to say to the good folk of Concord that the growth and prosperity of our metropolis cheer me. Its dear churches, reliable editors, intelligent medical faculty, up-to-date academics, humane institutions, provisions for the army, and well-conducted jail and State prison — if, indeed, such must remain with us a little longer — speak for themselves.

The dedication of The Mother Church of Christian Science at Boston, with its paid-up cost of two million dollars, and its tremendous outpouring of eager communicants from all over the civilized world, is an event of impressiveness and momentous significance. The historic place of Mrs.