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A correspondent of a certain paper says: "Mind cure" is a difficult subject to grasp, especially for one outside the fraternity of Scientists, for it is wholly unique in its philosophy of health and disease. Its teachings seem on first view to be in many points at variance with the accepted facts of science and the lessons of personal-sense concussions.

If thou knowest thyself well, thou art better, and more praiseworthy before God, than if thou didst not know thyself, but didst understand the course of the heavens and of all the planets and stars, also the virtue of all herbs, and the structure and dispositions of all mankind, also the nature of all beasts, and, in such matters, hadst all the skill of all who are in heaven and on earth. — Theologia Germanica.

We have not in times past understood the true meaning of the words "fasting" and "prayer. " We have almost universally supposed that prayer meant a long petition to a personal God to grant a favor greatly desired, we willingly abstaining from food and other comforts to aid in propitiating the great Being whose blessing we humbly sought.

"The sacred books of the Hindus profess to teach science as well as religion; and the science they teach is, according to them, as decidedly revealed as the form of faith embodied in them. Consequently, Hinduism stands or falls with the science with which it is inseparably connected.

Every genuine reform attracts cheap following. Every real coin has its counterfeit.

She existed from the beginning before all ages, and will not cease to exist throughout all ages: it is she who shall create in Heaven a light which shall never be extinguished; she shall rise in the midst of her people, and she shall be blessed over all those who are blessed by God, for she shall open the doors of the East, and the Desired of Nations shall appear. — Lily of Israel.

Is it the Christian Scientists' "scare," or is it something to be seriously considered and crushed in the bud? Without commenting pro or con upon the subject, I will relate an experience of my own, which, if explainable on any other hypothesis I would gladly be informed. I had safely and delightedly closed a course of instruction under Mrs.

The attitude of the Church of Christ (Scientist) toward other denominations, is, to a certain extent, misunderstood. The only possible ground of difference is this:—The Christian Scientist claims the right to go beyond traditions and beliefs which declare that "the day of miracles is past," and "contends earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints"—by practical, scientific explanations, with "signs following," demonstrating that the method of Christ to heal the sick and reform the sinner, is not a lost art.

The distinguished young specialist, Dr. George R.

— There is a class of people who had rather die than live by other than the traditions of the dead past. If sick', they will live or die only in the orthodox way.