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From a carefully prepared article in a recent number of the Munsey Magazine ((October, 1898), by Brander Matthews, professor of English literature in Columbia University, we extract the following from what he has to say on "The Future of the English Language:"— "In the fourteenth century, the population of France was about ten millions, and that of the British Isles probably less than four millions, In both territories there were certainly many who did not speak the chief language; yet the proportion of those who spoke French to those who spoke English was at least ten to four. "Now we are nearing the last year of the nineteenth century, which has been a period of unexampled expansion for the English speaking race, who have spread to India, to Australia, and to Africa, besides filling up the western parts of the United States; they now number probably a hundred and twenty-six millions.

Dear Editor: —During my recent travels abroad, while visiting my husband's mother in Peterhead, Scotland, I was asked by the Rev. J.

I Am not a musician, but this morning I felt as if my heart was one overflowing song, though the words were simple, "God's love, God's love. " I was brought up under a bondage of fear.

On my father's side of the family there was a strong claim of biliousness and liver complaint in a most aggravated form. From a child if anything was the matter with me, I knew at once that I was bilious.

We well know that any thought of Truth whether it goes out verbally, in a silent treatment, or by means of the pen, if the motive is honest, and the purpose sincere, that it cannot return void, or fall uselessly to the ground. When the Christian Science Journals are received at our office, each one takes a copy, everything else is dropped, however important, and silence reigns as it did in heaven for the space of half an hour, and perhaps for the same reason, viz.

It is three and a half years since health, strength, courage, and ambition thoroughly failed. I early became interested in study, and "big ambition" in a "little body" led me to finish my studies.

In response to the article published in the Christian Science Weekly entitled "Christian Science in Dentistry," I submit my own experience, which may benefit a fellow-worker. I had suffered intensely from a tooth in which the nerve was exposed, and there was a good sized cavity apparent to all who examined it, and all urged me to visit a dentist without delay, as ulceration was inevitable otherwise.

The following letter was received by me a few weeks ago from one who, without other help, such as class teaching or church or personal contact with Scientists, and having to overcome, withal, the difficulties of a foreign language, is faithfully trying to make Christian Science his own, and to learn to live it and demonstrate it purely from our text-book, Science and Health, and the other writings of our Leader, in connection with the Bible Lessons, the Journal, and the Weekly. He has never been in any English-speaking country, and even a year ago had the greatest difficulty in reading English with frequent helps of the dictionary, which makes study very tedious and severely tested his earnestness.

The following paragraph is quoted from a recent number of the Congregationalist:— "That the British Weekly should begin a series of papers on Christian Science, written in a colloquial vein to make them popular, and descriptive of the worship, tenets, and practices of the Christian Science folk in London, indicates that Dr. W.

One of the chief objections to Christian Science made by those unwilling to accept its teachings, is that it takes away the living and true God, and puts in His place a cold, distant, lifeless, abstract, impersonal principle. Of course, such a statement only manifests an ignorance of what Christian Science does teach.