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Now that it is well understood that prayer has an important place in Christian Science, may it not be in order to ask whether it can be justly claimed that the prayer of the Bible is the prayer of Christian Science! As the son of a clergyman, and later as a clergyman myself, I was educated to unquestioning belief in the prevailing doctrine of prayer as practised by the modern church. The study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G.

Chicago now has its sensation in the trial of sausage-maker Luetgert, for the murder of his wife, and the morbid element of the reading public will devour the details, little thinking of the possible injury to themselves of holding in thought, such unhealthful mind pictures. The Biblical declaration that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he" — which is doubtless more literally true than humanity admits — is a constant admonition to a careful discrimination as to the mental food of which we daily partake.

The human mind is like a great mansion with many rooms. The conscious thought occupies a few of these rooms, and, because of its ignorance, it believes that it occupies the whole mansion; but this is not so.

About eighteen years ago I was visiting at my old home, near Boston, and called upon a friend, whose daughter had been healed by some one who had read some books. I saw the books for a very few moments while making this call, and they attracted me as no other book had ever done.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life!—Titus, 3:5-7. It is not by works of righteousness, but according to his mercy.

The following account of Christian Scientists' work in Bloomington is contributed by one of the leading members of the church. The Christian Scientists of this city, have just completed the interior decoration and changes of their church edifice, which they recently purchased, known as the Independent Church.

William Bradford Dickson , formerly proprietor of the Dickson Shorthand School in the Bayard Building, is an enthusiastic exponent of Christian Science. He read with much interest Rev.

The announcement that Rev. Dr.

Real sense is mental and not material. If it were not so all men would see alike, hear alike, smell the same smell, taste the same taste, and all have the same sense of touch.

On a railway train the "peace and rest" of all the passengers was much disturbed by the pitiful crying of a babe in the arms of its mother, who had three other children demanding a share of her attention. Varying theories were exchanged among the occupants of the car, as to the probable cause of the child's discomfort, but the crying continued and seemed to grow worse, none of the passengers venturing to do anything, until several commercial travellers appointed one of their number a committee to appeal to the conductor to put "the woman and her young ones into the smoker," but that official replied that, having paid her fare, she had just as much right in the first-class coach as any one.