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The following comes to us from the Detroit Free Press: — "Bishop Vincent continued his remarks, which are full of good advice to the pastors, at the opening of the conference session this morning. He compared soldiers in an army to those who enlist in the work of the Lord.

The more we come into the understanding of Truth and become conscious of our real being, the more apparent it is to us that material things do not satisfy, do not save, and that matter cannot be depended upon; for in the end it fails us, and we are driven to seek higher support, things spiritual, which alone give us satisfaction and happiness. Mortal man still expresses the same sense of doubt that characterized Thomas; he must see before he will believe and accept; but Jesus said, "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

The new Church Building on Lafayette, near Franklin Avenue, was opened on Sunday the 10th day of October, 1897, with appropriate dedicatory ceremonies. This service was held in the evening, and was conducted by the Readers of this and other churches.

To the Christian Scientist there surely is a close relation between the words of Jesus in John, 10: 14, "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine," and the words on the first page of the Christian Science Journal of April, 1895, the first paragraph of "Church and School," by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, wherein the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are ordained as the pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist, universally.

Desiring to make known, through the medium of the Journal, the many benefits I have received through Christian Science, I must first solicit time and space, the giving of which I shall consider a great favor. Born of Irish Catholic parents, and being blessed with an exceedingly devout mother, my earliest teachings were such as to inculcate in my young mind a firm conviction that there was nothing outside of the Church.

The Christian Scientists, who have been holding services in the Lyceum Parlors, have organized a branch of the "Mother Church" in Boston under the name of the Baltimore Second Church of Christ, Scientist. As in all Christian Science Churches, they have no pastor.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. —Romans 12: 21.

About five years ago Christian Science was first brought to my attention by the healing of a very dear friend, who, when I left my home in the morning, was lying on the lounge suffering from a very severe attack of asthma. When I returned in the evening I found her entirely healed.

Correspondents with the Clerk of the Mother Church upon matters pertaining to the Church are requested, when signing their letters, to write one at least of their given names in full. Ladies should write their own, not their husbands' names.

Christian Science , like all great things, has its history— a history as yet, perhaps, largely unwritten; but occasionally circumstances arise which show the progress that Truth is making, and then those on the watch-towers of thought give God thanks for His guidance and the priceless blessings of His Love. One of the more recent phases of error, or mortal mind seems to be the attempt to hinder the demonstration of Truth by some system of so-called legislation.