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ALL the activities of human experience, from the beginning of time, have been influenced by the concepts men have held of other men. There is no basis to uphold society or business affairs but the human thought of what constitutes mankind.

WHEN the word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me," Jonah was frightened, and fled,—fled from the presence of the Lord to Joppa to find a ship for Tarshish, where other gods ruled, and where Jehovah might not be able to reach a disobedient servant (just as error constantly suggests that we shift to another base to escape the demands of Truth): but the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to have been broken (fear and disobedience still raise such tempests in the sea of mortal mind). But Jonah, self-mesmerized into a belief of security, lay fast asleep and heard not the cries of the mariners, each to his own god, nor their wails as they cast into the sea the wares that freighted the ship, till the ship-master came beseeching him to arise and call on his god, who, peradventure, might think upon them and save them.

ABOUT one year ago I first attended a Christian Science testimony meeting. It was in a large and beautifully lighted church building, which was crowded to the doors.

TO one acquainted with the genius and teaching of Christian Science, it seems strange that those who are endeavoring to follow this teaching should ever be accused of narrowness. Such a charge is sometimes made, however, and while it may occasionally be the result of prejudice or unkindness, let us in charity hope that it more frequently arises from misunderstanding.

RECENTLY , while earnestly conversing with a fellow-student about the urgent want, seen and felt everywhere outside of Christian Science, the above oft-repeated and overflowing quotation from our text-book brought to me a new burst of light. Having in mind relief from some pressing circumstances,—human necessities as judged from the standpoint of the physical senses,— my friend, with the usual complacent and selfish expectation, quoted this well-proved and unselfish promise.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is a religion of doing. Therefore, let us see what it does.

Some days ago Representative Abbott of Manchester introduced a bill in the New Hampshire Legislature, the purpose of which was to prohibit the healing of physical ailments by Christian Scientists. The bill imposed a penalty of $50 for the first offence; $100 for the second offence, and if the party further persevered in violating the law, he was to be sent to jail.

COMMITTEE REPORTS. Judiciary.

We are pleased to print, with permission, the following interesting letter from Rev. Irving C.

The inscription "In God we trust," is stamped upon the coin of our country, and it was of no small moment, that we—as a nation—should send forth a medium of commercial exchange bearing this declaration to all people, "In God we trust. " It is absolute.