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I Was born and raised a Methodist, and at the age of fourteen was formally admitted into the church, and have remained there ever since. Some ten years ago a daughter who had suffered untold misery for years, and had been treated by the best physicians in the country, and had taken so much strong medicine that she was entirely helpless, was wonderfully and permanently cured by a few treatments in Christian Science.

On this subject of "The Mission of Christian Science," there is so much to be said, that I can aim to give you, at this time, only the briefest outlines, with the hope that these may serve as an incentive to further interest and investigation hereafter. There is a somewhat prevalent notion that Christian Scientists look upon the ills of this present sense of existence with lofty unconcern, and content themselves with saying, "There is nothing the matter with the world,—Good is everywhere, and the only reality, hence we need not trouble ourselves over the flimsy appearances of that which is not real.

The following letter from our Leader was written in January last for publication in some of our newspapers, but not having been so used, it is now our privilege to present it to the readers of the Journal. My Dear Editors:— Because Christian Scientists love to hear from me, I will write for you occasionally, and do thou with my letter whatsoever seemest to thee good.

To the Editors of The Universalist Leader :— I am always drawn to "Editorial Briefs" at once on opening The Leader, for there is generally something to interest and instruct; but I am more than usually interested in those of December 11, or that portion relating to Christian Science; and I want to say a word, simply to set my esteemed Brother Atwood right on a few points regarding the subject where he seems to some extent misinformed. First, let me say that my experience tells me that Christian Scientists are not made such, in any sense, by the "mysterious or semi-supernatural" aspect of its claims.

" The people of Boston," observes our slurring contemporary, the Journal, "are bound to maintain their reputation as cultivators of fads. That is why the Christian Science 'Church' in that city now has ten thousand members, two thousand four hundred having been added on Sunday at one fell swoop A long while ago Anne Hutchinson found Boston a fertile field for the spread of her doctrine of the 'inward light,' so that the orthodox had to banish her in self-defence; much later came transcendentalism; later still came the cult of Mozoomdar and Buddhism.

The Christian Scientists of Canon City have enlarged their place of worship, and have now a large, pleasant hall to accommodate their growing congregation. The hall will be wired for electric lights this week.

From the Sioux City Daily Tribune of December 13, 1897, we extract the following:— "The new First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Sioux City, located at the southwest corner of Tenth and Jones Streets, was dedicated yesterday. "Services were held at 10.

I have the pleasure to say, the third edition of this book is issued and presented to me by the publishers, John Wiley & Sons, 53 East Tenth Street, New York City. I have carefully examined it, and find that with its new dress and translation, it is even more desirable and serviceable than the preceding editions.

Several days ago, a Mexican, living on Joe Pruitt's farm in the eastern portion of this county, was bitten by a rattlesnake. A son of Mr.

My attention has been called to an editorial bearing the headlines, "A Discovery that Man is Self-Creative," which appeared in the Statesman of a week ago last Sunday. Inasmuch as there is a doubt expressed in this article as to whether the periodical called Freedom, from which the quotation under discussion was taken, is an organ of Christian Science, it may not be amiss to make a few statements concerning a subject which is of so much interest to many, and is causing so much general discussion.