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I Would like to relate the story of my healing and conversion from Judaism to Christian Science, with the hope that it may benefit others of my ex-co-religionists. I was brought up in the Jewish faith, an orthodox Jew.

The question is often put to me, "Why do students of Christian Science love Mrs. Eddy, and appear so eager to follow and serve her?" and frequently I am asked if we do not look to her personality, and not beyond her in our worship.

Dear Journal :—We are glad when one month is closing, for with the new one comes our much-loved Journal. We appreciate so much each article therein; and how eagerly we scan the "Contents," to see if a message has come to us from "Mother.

My thought has been turned recently toward one of the many problems which is confronting mankind, one which philanthropists, and those most intimately concerned, are endeavoring to solve through co-operation. This movement is said to hold middle ground between socialism and communism on the one hand, and monopolies on the other, aiming neither to equalize the power and wealth of the world by an arbitrary levelling of all distinctions, nor to enrich the few by the selfish disregard of the many.

The following letter is interesting as showing the fact that the consistent lives of Christian Scientists are coming into appreciation in the business world. The letter was written by an attorney-at-law residing and doing business in Charlevaix, Michigan, whose name is not given, as we have not asked his permission to use it:— Mrs.

The Milwaukee Daily Sentinel , of March 8, devoted a page, under an especially engraved heading, to the Author's Convention held in that city. It says:— "In round numbers, one hundred and fifty manuscripts have been sent to the management of the Wisconsin Authors' Convention, which opens at the Ethical Building Tuesday at ten o'clock.

The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, does not derive its authority from the consent of the governed. In its absolute Scientific sense it is the eternal, changeless expression of Spirit, without a visible form to the present finite sense.

A memorable Fourth of July, indeed, will be that of Anno Domini, 1897, in the annals of Christian Science. We deem it not boastful to say that never was assembled in celebration of any nation's natal day a more devout or thankful set of people than those who gathered in "concord" at Concord on July 5th last.

Among the vicious new legislation which the recent special session of the Iowa legislature enacted, there is a law that is aimed at the destruction of a church in Burlington that is known as First Church of Christ, Scientist. While the number of people who have accepted this faith is not so large as the membership of some of the other churches, still there are nearly a hundred people who have found spiritual and physical comfort in what they choose to term scientific Christianity, and the number includes some of the most intelligent men and women in Burlington.

Yesterday afternoon Dr. Charles G.