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JESUS once asked the Pharisees, who often questioned him,—not in order to learn the truth, but that they might find something by which to condemn him,— "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" Pharisaism cannot discern the Christ, and because of their self-righteousness and hypocrisy it was impossible for them to comprehend the true origin of him who was indeed the Son of God, and when, tracing the belief of human origin, they replied that he was "the son of David," they lost sight of the grand truth that God is the only Father, and that man proceeds from God. Peter, in his reply to Jesus' question, "Whom say ye that I am?" gave a truer, more spiritual answer than that of the Pharisees, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

It is with great pleasure and deep gratitude that I send my testimony to the Journal to tell what Christian Science has done for my wife and for myself. It was four years ago last March that my wife was healed of heart trouble and consumption.

A Manchester despatch to the Boston Globe says:— "What is believed to be the largest fee ever received by a New Hampshire attorney is said to have recently been paid Ex-Congressman Henry M. Baker of Bow, who was a senatorial aspirant in the contest last winter, which resulted in the election of Henry E.

In the April number of the Journal there appeared an article entitled, "How Should the Sick be Healed?" and I would like to tell of an experience that I passed through before I knew of this saving Truth that makes us free. For twenty years my wife was an invalid.

DUALISM is the result of limitation, and will disappear as the unity and infinity of Truth appear. A few illustrations might be given.

I read some practical rules recently, written by a lady of eighty-five years, who had led a very happy, useful life. One of the lines read "Simplicity— Simplicity— Simplicity.

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day, would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are very unnecessary and altogether fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. Believe and love,— a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

LAST year in the Royal Academy, London, England, hung a picture entitled, "Joy and the Laborer. " Two figures only were represented one, a sweet-faced child just blossoming into intelligent girlhood, seated upon a grassy bank, singing; and the other a bent and wrinkled old man who, having ceased for the while his delving in the furrows, was leaning upon his spade listening to the child's song.

A LITTLE over eight years ago, when passing through severe financial reverses, Christian Science was brought to our notice, and from the first we found it "a very present help in trouble. " Although not seeking it for physical healing, I was cured of an organic trouble for which I was about to undergo an operation, one of Denver's leading physicians having pronounced my case incurable without it.

WHEREVER there is a defined conception of God, the religious thought finds manifestation in some outward form of worship. Men in their helplessness realize the necessity of an appeal to a higher power; and when a number in one place agree in their conceptions of this power and the manner of approach thereto, the result will be a congregation of worshipers, or a church.