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Oh, my God! I offer, as a consecrated gift upon thy altar, a heart dedicated to thy service; lips speaking only words of charity and love and truth; thoughts striving to be only the true thoughts of the mind of God. Help me to endure unto the end, strong in the faith, powerful in the truth.

A. D.

Jesus was the Great Physician because he was the healer of all manner of sickness and disease among the people, and he "made them every whit whole. " He gave sight to the physically and morally blind; hearing to the deaf; soundness to the maimed; knowledge to the ignorant; strength to the weak; liberty to the captive; joy and peace to the sorrowing; hope to the mourner, and the hand of compassionate forgiveness to the sinning.

Aristotle said, "What does a man gain by telling a lie? Not to be believed when he speaks the truth. " If the simple falsehoods uttered about me were compounded, the mixture should be labelled thus: "Some Christians' mistaken views of Mrs.

Rufus H. Bartlett, M.

571 Columbus Avenue. Boston, March 21, 1885.

[Agreeable to the invitation of the Editor of Zion's Herald, through his contributor, Prof. Townsend, the following letter was submitted and refused admission in the columns of the Herald.

Dear Readers, — My little son, five years old, was taken with scarlatina, sore throat and very high fever. The third day he broke out in a thick rash, the neck very much swollen, and throat worse.

A few heated clergymen having made the following false charges against Science and Health, we shall reply by quotations from the work:— "'Science and Health' teaches free-love. " Read this in reply: " The last infirmity of error that would fasten itself on society, to see it hobble under a new burden of guilt, is 'free love.

All who are interested in the work of Christian Science will recollect the severe letter of denunciation written by Rev. A.