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The Chicago band of faithful workers for Christian Science having elected Miss Ellen Brown Vice-President, those of our readers who know her personally may be interested to read the following extract from her letter of acceptance and advice to that body, inasmuch as it is evidence of her loyalty to our Cause, and promise of her perseverance in well-doing, against what, to any but Christian Scientists, would be fearful odds: "Since it seems unavoidably my duty to serve as Vice-President of our branch of the C. S.

At the recent sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, two well-known geologists referred to two fossil shells as found, sometimes, side by side in the same rocks. Thereupon the State geologist of New York, who had never seen those two fossils side by side in the same rock, and whose pet theory of geology would not admit the possibility of their being there, rose and dogmatized, in behalf of his theory, after the type of the narrowest theological bigot.

The footsteps of thought, as they pass from the sensual side of existence to the reality and Soul of all things, are slow, portending a long night to the traveller; but the guardians of this night are the angels of His presence, that impart grandeur to the intellectual wrestling and collisions with mortal beliefs, as we drift into more spiritual latitudes. — M.

The Rev. C.

If we have a true conception of God we are far advanced in self-knowledge. There are diversities of ideas of God among the sons of men.

If God makes man sick, sickness is good, and its opposite, health, must be evil; for all He made is good, and should continue and will remain for ever. If a law of mortal mind transgressed makes man sick, then sickness is the result of sin and error; hence, its only remedy is in mind, and not matter.

When God wants a certain work done He calls somebody out from among the ranks of men and sets him to do that work. The fitting for the performance may be a slow process, as in the case of Jesus of Nazareth, who was thirty years preparing for his three years' public ministration; or it maybe in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as in the case of Saul of Tarsus.

All claims from schools or individuals to teach Christian Science, metaphysical healing, under the auspices of, or as auxiliaries to the Massachusetts Metaphysical College of Boston, are bogus! The President of this Institute, Mary B. G.

Our speculative theories on health admit that food sustains the life of man, and then discuss the certainty that food can kill a man. —It is not the body, but mortal mind, that says food is undigested, that the gastric juices, the nervous tissues, and mucous membranes are diseased.

The common adulterations of bread are —alum, sand, sulphate of copper, rice, potatoes. These create dyspepsia and diarrhœa.