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Dear Journal : At Council Bluffs, in September 1884, I was taken down with nervous prostration, which ran into paralysis, softening of brain, and spinal-trouble; and in July, 1886, I became bedridden, unable to move hand or foot. I found out that medicine did me no good, and had given it up.

My dear Friend and Teacher : Enclosed you will find a check for $30. 00 for your Church-building Fund.

I want to tell some of my sick and suffering sisters what God and Christian Science have done for me. I have been an invalid for more than twenty-five years, with a complication of diseases, catarrh, throat-trouble, weak lungs, spinal-trouble, heart-trouble, and nervous prostration.

Your card is at hand, which informs me that mine, containing ten dollars, was not received. I was comparatively at ease concerning its loss; except being decidedly tried with myself, for having risked a ten-dollar bill in a letter.

Dear Journal : For the benefit of a certain class of sufferers I wish to state one of my cases; for I believe if people only know what could be done for them, thousands would seek a Scientist before they slept. In the spring I received a letter from a perfect stranger in a distant part of the State, asking what could be done for a man who had been intoxicated nearly all the time for several years, and was very profane and abusive in his family.

I have a case of cancer of the uterus, which was given up five weeks ago by the attending physicians, Dr. J.

We call the surrounding medium of the Earth atmosphere (at-most-fear). It seems more reasonable to call it Mind; as Intelligence guides the Earth, as well as the rest of the universe, in such exact time and movement, and keeps all paths straight.

That excellent paper, The Woman's Journal, thus sensibly comments on a good work: Miss Ada M. Leigh has established a home in Paris, where English-speaking women and girls may go for shelter and aid.

A young philosopher of seven years of age, who had not progressed far enough to hear the Holy Scriptures disputed, listened attentively in his father's parlor, the other evening, to a warm discussion on the Darwinian theory. After the guests had departed, he somewhat surprised his father.

Dr. Bernheim, a French physician, says that it is not really the lack of food, but the sensation of hunger, which brings about death by starvation.