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That they may be ashamed of their iniquities. —Ezekiel xliii.

Any citizen who is tired of mundane concerns and wants to fix his mind on something higher is invited to consider the allegation of Sir Francis Galton, made in the London Fortnightly Review, that some one on Mars is signalling to earth. The information seems not as yet to be very generally confirmed by astronomical observers, but Sir Francis is quoted as authority for the report that in one of the European observatories an apparatus has been devised for recording the Martian flashes, and that the record shows that three signals and no more are made, and that they differ, as all flash-light signals do, in the length of the flashes and of the intervals between, so that if we had the key they might be read like telegraphic messages.

Day by day, if we are watchful, we can learn large lessons by looking into Nature and her ways. Jesus gave a severe rebuke to those who were over-anxious, by showing them that God would clothe them, even as the lilies of the field, if they only had faith.

Dear Journal: — We have been much more backward than we should have been, in sending a word of thankfulness, and, we trust, also of encouragement, in slight return for the help you bring us so constantly; for we are all members of the one family, and "none of us liveth to himself," all striving to reflect the One Mind, One Life, Truth, and Love. We came to Cripple Creek to live in February, 1896, leaving a dear little band of Scientists in Leadville, Colorado, and hoping to find one here; but after seeing this and that one who were spoken of as Scientists, I found them without our text-book, Science and Health (which no true Scientist is ever long without), or if they did own one it was not to use.

Last Sunday a Sunday School was organized at the Christian Science Church, corner of II and Eleventh Streets, with thirty-six children enrolled for the first meeting. The directors of the church had arranged for the organization of the Sunday School by the appointment of Mrs.

" Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has recently been placed in the libraries of the State Penitentiary and Jail at Baltimore, Md. ; also the Journal.

Dear Journal :—When I was about sixteen years old I began to seek after what the church calls religion. I became very anxious to get what so many church members claimed to have, and I sought long and earnestly for it.

For seventeen years I sought for health and happiness through materia medica and the teachings of Christianity as it is preached from the pulpit, with the result that I found both getting farther and farther from my reach. When I had about come to the conclusion there was nothing left for me but to die, Christian Science was brought to my notice.

All true Christian Scientists know of the reluctance one feels in speaking of self in connection with God's work; but, as His humble child, I have been allowed to sow the seed in Paris, Dresden, and Home. Fifty copies of Science and Health have been sold and distributed since last spring in Paris.

Dear Journal: — A recent visit from an earnest Scientist from "abroad," who inquired in detail as to our method of work, together with many interesting and helpful reports from, other branch churches, published in the Journal, has induced our Board to instruct the following, taken from our last quarterly report, to be sent you, with the thought that possibly others might get another helpful hint. This Church was incorporated January 13, 1893.