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WE find in the Bible many references to the "Word. " There is the word of exhortation, the word of prophecy, the word of his grace, the faithful word, and the word fitly spoken, which is said to be like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Kobe, Japan, June the 31st, 1895. Dear Journal: — After a stay of two years in America, which was preceded by some seven years' absence in a foreign land, we have returned to Japan, guided by the Truth.

WHEN I was quite young I had the measles which settled in my eyes, and for six months I was blind. I was under the treatment of the best oculists, and after six months I recovered the sight of one eye, but not enough to return to school and finish my education or read any at all.

Extracts from a paper on Christian Science written by Dr. Hildegarde H.

ONE evening as the problem of Life was pressing hard upon me, and I was contemplating the awful seeming of the unreal, and trying to catch a glimpse of the real, it seemed to me that a vast ocean rolled before me, and on it were many ships. Some were gaily dressed with streamers flying, and all on board seemed joyous and gay.

I DO not think, of course, that any one has espoused the Cause of Christian Science unless he is teaching and demonstrating that "these signs shall follow them that believe: in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and, if they drink any deadly thing it shall not not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. " To really espouse the Cause of the Science of Christianity means nothing less than a fulfilment of Jesus' last prayer, that all who truly believe, that is, who can grasp and understand the Christ-Mind, shall find that the man of God's creating is one with Christ, even as He is one with the Father.

"BEHOLD , I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people," —words of hope, health, and Life, to those in greatest need, to the sick or injured one, vainly opposing the verdict of death as the only remedy for suffering, to the helpless victim of evil habit, to the sin-sick outcast, to the disheartened and sorrowing one who "has nothing left to live for," to him, who, having no sure foundation of Truth to stand on, sees with dismay the ravages of contagion, crime, and disaster, sees the growing contempt for law, chastity and human rights, sees the failure of man's inventions, material, legislative and doctrinal, to make men truly healthy, honest, good and pure No thinker can fail to see that these discordant conditions but emphasize the demand for a higher and better understanding of Good; a foundation Principle, absolute, universal, unchangeable, establishing in the heart the law of Love, that of itself destroys all evil. Impossible! Yes, manifestly so,— of mortals; but the eternal fact of God, who is Life, Truth and Love,— this is the glad message that Christian Science brings, revealing the "perfect God and His perfect creation," and enabling its followers to practically teach and demonstrate in this age, "man's dominion over all the earth," materiality, sin, sickness, and ultimately, death; and this shall be done through fulfilling the two great commandments, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," and "Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Mr. Editor: — Permit me to say through our Journal, your editorial in the August number is par excellence.

AS our Christian Science Journal now contains nearly eight hundred names of those who profess to be Christian Scientists, and as they come to us from thirty-seven States and Territories, besides from foreign lands, the question is naturally asked. Who are Christian Scientists? By consulting Webster, we find that "Christian," as we use that term, means, "one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.

The newspaper press has of late indulged in much sneering at and criticism of Christian Science. Probably the majority of those who most severely criticize it know precious little about its foundation, purposes and results.