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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.

The churches sing very vigorously about the day when all the saints shall gather in one congregation, but they would have the time deferred till everybody turns each church's way. They beat the broad and plain principles of the Bible into spears and swords to fight doctrinal combats and dispute over creeds.

Under the heading "Current Comments," topic, "Healing the Sick," the Watchman of June 4, says: "When any one would have us exercise faith without works, we reply that it would be tempting God. " I should think so, indeed.

We may understand by the term "mesmerism" (malicious or innocent) the power apparent of animal mind, or magnetism . I am deeply interested in the accounts furnished by the C.

"God created man in His own image. " It would seem, if we believe this statement, that in order to know ourselves we must have a true conception of God.

It has been ingeniously said that metaphysicians are poets who have missed their vocation. The more one thinks of it the more just that saying appears.

Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said: "The time Cometh and now is that they who worship the Father shall worship him in Spirit and in Truth. " Again, foreseeing the persecution that must attend the introduction of this science, he said: "The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God service.

The church which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it may be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

As from the mount of vision, I behold, Pure, just and free, the Church of Christ on earth— The martyr's dream, the golden age foretold! C. A.