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"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. " James i.

A physician (of which school we are not informed), who has taken umbrage at our remarks about "Christian Scientists," rhetorically asks us "whether these people are in any way authorized or licensed by the State of Illinois to practise medicine or heal the sick in any manner. " We notice this question only because it throws an interesting light upon the minds of people who are inclined to be disputatious.

The following are editorials in recent issues of The Chicago Evening Post. DOCTORS AND "CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

There are three points in connection with the above lecture on Hypnotism worthy of especial note. First.

A Case which may assume great interest and importance as a precedent is that in which a grand jury in New York state has just indicted the leaders of several Christian Science societies. The occasion of the indictments was the death of a woman while under the care of Christian Scientists.

A Large and interesting audience gathered last night at the First Presbyterian church to hear Prof. Olin Templin of the State university lecture on the subject of "Hypnotism.

Santa Claus is under the ban in Janesville. Has the jolly saint been "churched"? It looks that way.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Looking backward down the vista of time, till thought rests with mingled awe and joy upon the central event of all history, the first Christmas, with its accompanying message of holy peace to all men, does not one overshadowing question present itself to all who thus journey back through the centuries, to consider and ponder the deep lesson taught by the nativity of the Virgin-born babe of Bethlehem? Of what present and individual significance, is this event to me? Is its import simply historical, or is its essence spiritual and of hourly value to me as a child of God? Prophesied by the seers of Hebrew history, and appearing in the divine order of spiritual unfolding, "He came unto his own and his own received him not. " By men, he was first seen as a babe in the manger of humility and lowly estate, at twelve, the confounder of the scholastics in the temple at Jerusalem, later, a carpenter or builder preparing to enter the arena of human affairs, that he might teach men the Science of Being, the building of the heavenly character "after the pattern shown in the Mount," and finally, the" Light of the world," and great Victor over sin, disease and death.

"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. " Col.