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We read in Exodus vi. 3, "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.

The Christian Science Journal is a monthly publication representing the new sect, or that part of it which professes to receive the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's "Science and Health" as the only authorized text-books of religion.

In looking over the world to-day, one cannot fail to notice a great restlessness, a striving after something not yet attained, which proves to the careful observer, that mankind has not yet found the "pearl of great price. " Here and there, however, are seen those who seem to have found something that is more to them than all the world, and it is plain that they are slowly but surely turning from all that used to seem worth striving for, and that their one end and aim is to possess a certain great prize.

Do we ever stop to consider why it is that "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures" is unlike any other book ever written? why it is that the reading of it never becomes monotonous? why it is that new ideas are constantly being gleaned from it, that the longer one reads it, the more interesting and instructive it becomes? why it is that with this reading comes a higher sense of peace and happiness, enabling us to overcome trials and temptations that before seemed insurmountable? why it is that the so-called ignorant and unlearned can grasp its Truth and be healed by it, and that, oftentimes far more readily than the highly educated? why it is that the foreigner who can scarcely read or speak a sentence of the English language, can read and interpret its spiritual meaning? The reason is plain. Back of every statement contained in this "little book" is the true idea of God, man, and the universe; not some one's opinion, supposition, or theory, but the one true idea of them, that idea which is as eternal and unchangeable as God himself, and which speaks to this age in a new tongue.

What does Jesus mean when, in his commands to the disciples to teach and preach, he almost invariably enjoins them to "heal the sick"? and why is it that this part of the command is always ignored by our ministers in the pulpit and out of it, never noticing or commenting upon it? Why do we claim that the day of miracles is past, and the preachers put limitations upon their interpretation of "miracles "? For some days I have dwelt in the household of one whose daughter is a Christian Scientist, and I have met and known, personally, people who have been wonderfully cured, people whose diseases were not "imaginary," but were given up as incurable by eminent specialists; only yesterday a lady passed here twice who two weeks ago was said by her physicians to be dying with a cancer on the breast and was almost instantly healed. These I know, and the fact cannot be denied that they are healed.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits; who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. —Psalms, ciii.

This poem and its illustrations are as hopelessly original as "Science and, Health, with Key to the Scriptures. " When the latter was first issued, critics declared it was incorrect, contradictory, unscientific, unchristian.

Physical Benefits. 1.

IF it be a fact that all is Mind, it precludes the possibility of the existence of matter as an integral part of the universe, or as having any real existence. All agree that Mind is Intelligence.

THE study of the Brotherhood of Man involves the consideration of the Principle as well as the practice of brotherhood. The purpose of this brotherhood is true happiness and satisfaction.