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While going through a course of instruction, a great truth was revealed to me so plainly, that I send it to the Journal, hoping it may help some one else on, in the way "from earth to Heaven," as it did me. I had considerable knowledge of Christian Science before entering a class, for I had earnestly studied the pages of Science and Health, and attended the meetings held in our city by a lady Christian Scientist, a woman expressing a true Christian spirit; and it was under her instruction that I placed myself.

"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!" This is as direct a command to us now, as it was to those to whom John spoke. We are to behold, or discern, that which will "take away the sin of the world.

The so-called reform movements do not accomplish that which they aim at, simply because they deal with effects, not causes. The existing state of affairs is of itself an effect.

What is it to be cleansed? Christian Science teaches that to be cleansed is to be free from false sense, sin or self. But in order to be free from these errors we must first know what they are.

Are angels realities? Science and Health explains that "they are pure thoughts from God. " Without question God's thoughts are real, and as such angels or "messages" have each an identity by which we may know one from another, as we know our friends in this mortal life.

What would our lives be if we were absolutely free from fear, fear for ourselves, and what is worse still, for all of us who are not wholly selfish, fear for those dearest to us? Are we fully conscious how utterly we are under subjection to this yoke of bondage, this law of fear? Not till we apprehend the glorious Truth as set forth in Christian Science do we realize that this heavy burden can be lifted, that it is not necessary for us to be the abject slaves of a supposed power, a dreaded, though unseen, tyrant who robs us of all sense of rest and freedom. We have most of us doubtless been more or less readers of the Bible.

Spread the glad tidings, is a great command of our Master. Tidings of what? The good news that a way is provided for mortals to escape from sin, sickness and death.

The following was written by the present editor, and printed as a Series, but before its circulation the Series were discontinued. It is now reproduced in the Journal.

The following letter was written in acknowledgment of the gift of a beautiful boat presented by the students and friends of Toronto, to be placed in the pond at Pleasant View. The boat contained among other decorations a number of masonic symbols.

Chicago, April 23. Editor of the Herald :— There have been intimations not a few in the press of the country, notably in the Northwestern Christian Advocate , that the legal authorities should interfere and prohibit Christian Scientists from persisting in their treatment of the sick until death.