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The press of the times mentions as an assured fact, the westward movement of the Eastern pestilence, and a medical professor of the Syrian Protestant College of Beyroot, gives a detailed historic account and description of the plague in its various stages of attack and progress, in one of our leading religious weeklies. This pestilence first made its appearance in Greece in the 9th century before the Christian era, since which time all the mighty learning of the East has been brought vainly to bear to discover its remedy and conquer its ravages.

The evidence that the Bible is a revelation from God is in the book itself. It could not fairly be elsewhere, so obviously as there.

The limitation of our knowledge of a thing does not affect the existence of that thing. "I have swept space with my telescope and found no God," said the great Lalande; but God was, and is, and evermore shall be, despite the mighty astronomer's faithless conclusion.

Give the science of Metaphysical healing a hearing in our pulpits, free discussion from the press, and the place in our institutions of learning that physiology now occupies, and it would eradicate sickness and sin in less time than they have been increasing on the old systems and stereotyped plans to beat them. But incorrect teaching will lower the standard of Truth.

Probably no subject of reform has received so much able thought in both the old and new world, as the relation of science to religion; but hitherto the sanative and reformatory qualities of divine truth and love have been practically excluded as intelligent remedial agents, by the doctors of both mind and body. Briefly, the history of Christian Science is as follows: The science of Christian healing was discovered by Mrs.

The first edition of Dr. Bartol's recent sermon on Christian Healing having been exhausted, the second is now in press.

The courage of right convictions is not to be despised, neither should the boldness of bad ones be overlooked. We should always carefully discriminate between the two.

The philosophers tell us the world iz round; I think it would be much better if they could tell us it waz square . All cunning men are like foxes, very cunning until they are kaught, and then they are the sillyest foxes yu ever see.

Persuaded by a friend to place myself for treatment under the care of a Christian Scientist, my mind was called to the claims of Metaphysics. The interchange of thought and opinion together with the reading of "Science and Health'' awakened a deep interest in the subject.

The new movement, known as that of the " Christian Scientists," has, on account of certain superficial resemblances on particular points, been confounded by many with that of mesmerism and spiritual mediumship.