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Why does error hate Truth? Why did the Jews, in the frenzy of madness, seek to lay hold of our Lord and slay Him? Had He given no testimony of the Fount of Love within Him but healing the sick, they had tolerated Him more easily—but the Jews believed this man assumed the prerogative of God by destroying alike sin and sickness. How was this work accomplished? By the understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of Life, Truth and Love.

The Experience of Francis Hodgson Burnett and Louisa M. Alcott With a Healer.

The ancient Greek looked longingly for the Olympiad; the Chaldee watched the appearing of a star, to him no higher revelation than the horoscope hung out upon empyrean. But the meek Nazarene, the scoffed of all scoffers, said: "Ye can discern the face of the sky, and how much more should you discern the sign of these times; " and he contemplated the ordeal of a perfect Christianity, hated by sinners.

I had not known of the new metaphysical medical practice till I read of it in the interesting (?) letters of Prof. L.

Editors "Christian Science" Magazine:— Why is it we hear so much about the Christian Scientists being mostly women? It might with equal truth be affirmed that all the religious bodies of to-day are composed of "mostly women," and the inmates of the various prisons and penal institutions are "mostly men. " If the statement proves anything it is this,— Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung; Not she denied him with unholy tongue: She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave; Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.

Whatever failures in proof of the Principle involved, faltering ones at the blackboard of life may make, the basis is still there, unalterable and available. When a boy at the board with his problems comes across one that seems beyond him, and whose operations are unknown to him, he does not, because of that fact, begin to declare that it cannot be solved.

We shall never understand the science of being while we believe that Soul sins, or is in the body; and when we do understand that science we shall be a law of Life to our bodies, even as the higher law of Soul that prevails over sense and gives harmony and immortality to man. The so-called laws of matter can never make man healthy, harmonious, or immortal: hence the importance of understanding the spiritual law of being, that brings out the perfection and immortality of thoughts that we name things.

Peter , feeling that his departure is at hand, with eloquent pathos, exhorts the brethren to continue steadfast. "We were eye witnessess of his glory," he said; "but we have a more sure word of prophecy" (than sense seeing and hearing).

The Rev. J.

The Sunday edition of the Boston Herald, June 14, contained a slight note of reproof to an American correspondent of the London Times, for misrepresenting the Christian Science movement in Boston. He is criticised for reporting "after the hall is crowded to suffocation (to hear the founder of the Science preach) people stand outside in the hope of catching a chance word.