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" Let a man examine himself. " On starting out to war, the knight of old had his armor thoroughly examined, to see that there were no weak places where the weapon of the enemy could find an entrance.

Can a practicing Christian Scientist justly require of another, working in the same field, weeks of treatment, thought and effort to lift a member of her own family out of the claim of sickness or sin, which she herself has failed to accomplish, simply because she is a practicing Christian Scientist? Can she justly demand this as her right from the other (to whom she has never given aught of her own time and labor), on the grounds that doctors of Materia Medica do not charge each other for their services, when ill? Attention is called to this matter because such demands are made, and although cheerfully acceded to, the blessing does not follow . The treatments do not lift the error.

While sitting in a hotel, in northern New York, one evening in April, 1888, I overheard some gentlemen talking about Christian Science: and the fact that interested me most, was that it healed the sick without medicine. As I never left home, for any length of time, without carrying a small apothecary shop, I was the more in earnest to know how healing could be done without it.

A synopsis of a sermon preached in Chickering Hall, by the pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston.   I have selected two passages of Scripture, or texts, because they present this subject from diametrically opposite points of view.

Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. To become pure as a child is the command.

Enclosed find check for $5 from the Christian Science Sunday School in Wilmington, Del. for Children's Fund.

In listening to the conversation of some of the little folks, the idea suggested itself, to visit the children's class of our Sunday School, and ask the children for some of their thoughts. So, with the kind permission of their teacher, I took my seat with them to learn of the allness of God.

A young medical student from the South attending lectures in this city tells how he cured a patient who was suffering from a curious ailment. The patient was an old negro, who for many weeks had been gradually wasting away from no apparent cause, says the New York Times.

Of late there has been, manifestly, a moving of the waters, causing a strong impulse to awaken the interest of the field in the erection of the dear Mother Church in Boston, making it as wide-spread as Truth itself, for which it is to stand as a perpetual witness through all generations. Since Christian Science is the universal panacea for every mortal discord, the destroyer of sin, sickness, and death, it is  universal salvation; and the thought coupled with the subject is that of Love's demand for universal, free-will offerings to this effect.

All over Christendom is told the tale of one who was called by the endearing name of Rabboni-Master. Multitudes followed, and would make him King, but he passed by, unmoved by the breath of praise.