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THE following carefully prepared article on the work of Doctors Grenfell and Hunt in Egypt is copied from The Chicago Tribune of January 17. This will be of interest to our readers as it contains much information in addition to that given in a recent article in the Sentinel.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE greatly simplifies our private affairs and public duties. Experience proves that the most complicated situations yield quietly to its serene ministrations.

EVERY individual who adheres to the tenets of Christian Science "has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death" (Science and Health, p. 450), and his success in this undertaking depends entirely upon his ability to make a practical and right application of the Principle revealed.

THE world has thought of Jesus as "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. " Yet he says, "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

THE aggregation of good traits in a character is prophetic of entire ultimate perfection; these traits counterbalance the weaknesses of nature, and while making no excuse for them, they bid us be patient with them until they are destroyed by the good. We have no right to demand perfection from our fellows until we can offer them perfection in ourselves.

SOME persons when taking up the study of Christian Science with a desire to begin its demonstration, have a sense of perplexity as to what course they should pursue. This is often due to the mistaken impression that there is a secret in Christian Science which must be learned by the uninitiated in order to become a successful practitioner.

THE impersonalization of will has always been a problem in Christianity. To have no will of one's own, and yet not to understand the will of God, leaves one helpless, without direction or security.

IT was stated in a recent issue of a religious publication that science "must continue to mean all that classified knowledge concerning the facts and laws of the cosmos which is accumulated through processes of observation and experiment. " A complete knowledge of the cosmos must include that of its origin and must deal with cause, and "experiment" must include an analysis of the cosmos in the light of spiritual understanding, otherwise we become entirely material both in theory and practice, "God is not in all" our "thoughts," and experimental religion has no place whatever.

NO man can sever his individual interests from the common lot of humanity, nor dwell so apart from humankind as to remain wholly unaffected by the universal experience. For this reason, no life can be entirely isolated.

At the close of the testimonies which constituted a part of the Thanksgiving Day services in the Mother Church, the following despatch was read, and on motion it was unanimously voted that the same be forwarded to Mrs. Eddy.