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The wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses; and dragons in their palaces. ISAIAH xiii.

We are often asked this question. Can we answer it? The author of Science and Health was the first to unite Science with Christianity.

Can anyone, who has come into the understanding of Christian Science, doubt the practical side of spirituality, or, indeed, see anything but its practical part? When we become accustomed to the glorious thought that God is All-in-all, and that we are upheld by the everlasting arms, what a dawn for us! The Light has come. It has shown us that what we have made much of, and called Life, is but a dream; and this light transfigures all our surroundings.

In the columns of The Chicago Interior appears a criticism of a very indefinite nature, but bearing this title, and treating the greatest subject of the age: the greatest, because, when understood, it will be of the most value to man; of the most value, because, when he sees and knows what Christian Science means, it will bring man back to his own home and country, to which he has so long been a stranger. One who understands this same Science, which the Master taught his apostles, and comprehends the truths of the Scripture in a demonstrable, spiritual sense, can easily discern that the Interior critic has unintentionally comdemned the way of Life, Truth, and Love, the Trinity in Unity, which Mrs.

In Genesis we read: "And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. " Our Teacher says: "The eternal Elohim makes man.

As one looks upon the complex condition surrounding us, and dwells thoughtfully upon the verdict of the senses, the impression is,—there must exist a power, in comparison to which man (mortal mind) sinks into utter insignificance; and yet, to the senses, man has made great and wonderful inventions. Man supposes the primitive cause of all knowledge to be based on material law, and he saps this supposed law for his benefit, receiving for a time, perhaps, a gratification of the desires of sense.

Science has been defined as a collection of facts, relating to any subject, arranged in systematic order. Now, if we have invariable laws of right, and if these laws are found in Christianity, then Christianity, properly understood and stated, is Scientific; and there you have Christian Science.

The world is flooded with false teachers and their literature; but dear Science and Health is a whole library in itself,—pure and beautiful. Its pages stand above the waves of error.

The assertion that I have said hard things about my loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place, is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel, and I can not find it in my heart not to love them.

Letters from loyal Christian Scientists, in the West, bring complaints of Brother Joseph Adams, the substance of which is that his course tends to disorganize our churches and schools, and to interfere with the rights of individuals. The Christian Scientist Association, of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, Boston, of which he is a member, enjoined by myself to exercise towards this brother the charity that "seeketh not her own," but another's good, hitherto has taken no decided action on these complaints; but a recent letter from Mr.