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Three years ago I was led to Christian Science in search of relief from suffering which had been endured seven years. The venture seemed foolish to those of our household, inasmuch as my claim was not hysteria or hallucination, but an old organic trouble that seemed to defy medical skill.

There is, in truth, a virtuous, glorious courage; but it happens to be found least in those who are most admired for bravery. It is the courage of principle, which dares to do right in the face of scorn, which puts to hazard, reputation, rank, the prospects of advancement, the sympathy of friends, the admiration of the world, rather than violate a conviction of duty.

Dear Journal: —With great pleasure and gratitude unbounded I send the following testimony. When this most beautiful Truth first dawned on my clouded consciousness, befogged with evil and error, I was a sinner and a very sick sinner, with nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to; those that I did not have, I thought I had, so that between what I did have in reality, (?) and what I thought I had, I had all there was to have,—there was nothing left out.

Is Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" an inspired hook? Yes. No book could do what that book has done, and is doing, unless it was inspired.

In the January Journal some cases of impersonal healing were given, and three cases are here given which will be more strictly called unconscious healing. The first one is that of the sister of my cousin's wife.

There is a law of the human mind that says man can be either rich or poor. Would it not be well to consider the command: "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread" ( Proverbs, 20:13 ).

It is about three thousand years since the old Hebrew king, well versed in all the phases of mortal mind, after tasting of its pleasures, suffering its pains, and learning of its so-called wisdom, sat down and said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity," and, "There is no new thing under the sun. " And in making this statement, Solomon voiced a great fact, for in deed and in truth there is nothing new.

When God said to Abram, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee," we read that "Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him," and when the promise came to him that all the land of Canaan should be given to his descendants, he believed, and there he "builded an altar to the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. " Following his history, we see that when he was prospered, and his nephew, Lot, was also prospered, a strife arose between their herdmen.

Much has been written during the latter half of the century now drawing to its end concerning the second advent of the Messiah. As early as 1845, certain close Bible students predicted that in 1866 "the end" would come.

There are still people who look upon Christian Scientists as a curious organization of cranks who are destined to disappear like many other short-lived fads. They cannot conceive that a woman should discover a great truth that enables people to live without expensive salaried ministers or church machinery; without patent medicines, cupping, or bleeding; and without advertising their religion altogether by word of mouth.