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In the Christian Science Sentinel issued August 31, 1899, the following is quoted from the Reverend O. P.

The public services of the Christian Scientists are unique in this, that while the Sunday service is devoted to public teaching from the two recognized text-books, the Bible, and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," it has been arranged by the author of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy, that the midweek meeting shall be a public occasion when those who have been blessed by Christian Science may assemble to glorify God.

To the Editor of the Tribune. Sir :—We have just read with interest the six questions propounded by '"Query" in your issue of to-day, and will endeavor to answer them,in a Way that We hope will be satisfactory to your readers.

Christian Scientists are more or less interested in every religious enterprise which has for its object the elucidation of Scripture. We have learned to read the Bible with more satisfaction and less superstition than we formerly brought to bear upon Scriptural study.

All the principles of pedagogy discovered by educators in the last half of the nineteenth century and now in use in our best schools, were practised by the Great Teacher in his three years' work among the children of men. Every good teacher has always followed certain laws in relation to his pupils, but only as the novice sings; it was without understanding why these rules were followed and without knowing that he followed them.

A Realization of the true import of the term Science is not so common as its general use would lead us to suppose. It is from the Latin verb scire , to know.

" Forget not for a moment, that God is All in all—therefore, that in reality there is but one Cause and effect" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 155).

Self-Knowledge is one of the requirements of Wisdom. The man most liable to think and to do wrong is one who knows the least about himself.

The teaching of Christian Science that the physical senses, so-called, cannot give reliable testimony in relation to God or man is, perhaps, more sharply criticised by the material thought than any other teaching in human history. Yet to trust what appears to these senses true causation, is to repudiate the most important wisdom of the past and present.

IN our text-book we are told "how mortal mind seems to induce disease by certain fears and false conclusions, and how divine Mind can cure by opposite thoughts. " (Science and Health, p.