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It is not often that we are called upon to notice a book by an author of the tender age of six, but such is the number of years that have been counted by Myra Bradwell Helmer, who has written a tiny volume of "Short Stories" (Chicago Legal News Co. ).

THE testimony meeting of the "students," or "Scientists," at the Christian Science Temple last evening included 250 persons. It may be that the genial light which radiates from this building is partly responsible for the large number that attends this mid-week service.

BEFORE I became a convert to Christian Science, I was a member of the German Reformed Church for nineteen years; my husband was a religious man and we had one child taught from infancy to love and serve God. At this time I was, to mortal sense, rich, but my husband had business losses, and through anxiety he became sick and died.

THE sight-seer driving through the magnificent park system around Philadelphia, in passing through the beautiful Wissahickon Park, usually has his attention called to the "Monastery," a massive stone building erected in 1738, now occupied as a farm house. Its historical interest arises from the fact that it served as the place of worship of a peculiar sect which came from Germany in the early history of the Province of Pennsylvania, known as German Pietists, but more especially designated by the denizens of the neighborhood as the "Hermits of the Ridge.

AFTER fifteen years of invalidism I was healed of all serious troubles; not one of them remaining. The doctors had said I could not even be helped without an operation.

THE following Invitation and Reply, in verse, were recently published in the West Roxbury (Mass) News, and are herewith republished by permission, as we believe they, together, ask and answer, in part, a vital inquiry relative to the Science of Being.

AS it is now estimated, there are four hundred thousand Christian Scientists in the United States, with the number rapidly increasing, not only in this country but in Europe, and the question is asked by many: "What are the fundamental principles upon which this system of religion is based, and what are their views or position upon the leading questions,—civil, social, political, and religious, of the day?" These questions arise from the fact that so much healing and good work is being done that it is attracting the earnest attention of all classes, independent of caste or nationality, and like all great discoveries, after passing through periods of ridicule, persecution, and denunciation, is coming into general acceptance as its utility and usefulness are recognized. Galileo was made to retract his declaration that the world was round instead of flat and four-cornered, and was led away to prison.

"But because of the people which stand by, I said It. "—Jesus.

Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe frults. —Ex.

IT is my desire to greet the brethren with loving thoughts and encouraging words; giving also thanks to God our Father for the revelation of Christian Science, and to our beloved Mother, the Rev. Mary Baker G.