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Text:  Mathew xxii. 29 : "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

The American Academy of Dental Science held its seventeenth annual meeting and banquet at Young's Hotel last night, the President, Dr. George T.

The regular monthly meeting of the Christian Scientists Association was held yesterday afternoon at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. The president, Prof.

The Christian Scientist Association, the oldest society of metaphysical healers, has been subject since ever it was organized, to the membership of some few too weak or too wicked to conform to, and keep pace with its grand requirements. Its object is progression, its methods reformatory and uplifting, and its president, the author of "Science and Health," is revered in her words and works.

At a meeting of the Christian Scientists' Association, Levi A. Childs was expelled from membership by unanimous vote of the Association.

The following doings of the Scientists' Association would not be made public, were it not that certain defamatory intimations with reference to the President of the Association and the Metaphysical College, are emanating from the expelled member. Other individuals have been expelled from our Society from time to time, for violation of the Constitution and By-laws of the order, but no public announcement of such action has been deemed necessary.

When reading the annual address of the President before the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of this city, I said, if this platform is rendered practical, it is the thing for the period, and the woman and the hour have met. We know little of the inside or outside of this organization, its motives, methods or aims, but Mrs Diaz has presented a fitting model whence to enlighten, uplift and adorn society.

Metaphysics is the science of God, the science which teaches us to know exactly the relation we bear as creations to our Creator, and which produces the certain knowledge of all our duties toward Him, toward each other, and toward ourselves. To be a true metaphysician is to have strength, wisdom, fortitude, at our command, to meet all the vicissitudes, shame, reproach, opposition, of the world.

To begin with, I will quote a few familiar sentences from the Bible, which seem to point us to Truth ; viz : "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven ;" "The flesh and the spirit war with each other ;" "The body profiteth nothing ;" "Take no thought for the body ;" "Willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. " Do not these words pronounce upon matter, and material thought, as having no power to give us an understanding of the spiritual kingdom and God? The truth is, we have to drop material sense, and and open the door on spiritual sense, to learn of God.

The Rev. A.