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One of the remarkable facts about Christian Science —a fact for which it is difficult to account except on the ground that this doctrine is the exposition of a great truth—is the way in which it appeals to the various phases and conditions of the human mind. To all who are striving to make life more beautiful and better worth the living, Christian Science lends a helping hand and points the way to a higher, broader, and more wholesome view of life and the destiny of man.

" I am Way, the Truth and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. " What did our Saviour mean when he said these words to his disciples? Could there be but one meaning? that the only way to the Father was by living the life Jesus lived, and following his example in word and deed? Does it mean anything less than it did nineteen hundred years ago? is there any other Way? The answer is found in the Master's own words, "Verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

As I read the editorial on this text in the June Journal, it came to me, not in the sense of punishment, but of reward; immediately I was lifted out of the region of chronic fear, discouragement, and despair, up into the realm of joy and peace, into the consciousness of the protecting care of an all-wise, all-powerful God of love; and as the babe nestles with perfect confidence in the arms of its mother, so I rested in the arms of Infinite Love. Oh, afflicted mortals! beset on all sides by numberless fears, cast aside your worry and anxiety.

Almost every theme known to man has been classified, amplified, and constituted a science, and the best years of our lives are spent in an absorbing study of these various theories; yet the subject of the most intense interest, the most vital importance to every human being is still, so far as the majority of mankind is concerned, without law or order, left to the dictation of circumstances or individual caprice. The science of living is unlearned, unknown.

When one states a fact all hearers immediately agree with him unless ignorant of the truthfulness of his assertion. Yet, many of the most universally accepted facts of to-day had to force their way into human consciousness through the most stubborn resistance.

About the year 1886 Christian Science first came to me with sufficient force to compel my attention. A gentleman of high business standing, who for several years had been slowly but surely passing down the well-traveled road of tuberculosis, suddenly, in the fall of the year, took the train for Chicago, instead of California, as was his custom.

" Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. " Ah! we too often let our hearts be afraid: we yield without even a parley; a fear arises, and we do not recognize it as an enemy of our King, we just let it enter and sit down, instead of unsheathing the sword of the Spirit and attacking it in the power of His might, and in the name that always conquers.

It is now a number of years since Christian Science was brought to my notice as a possible escape from the invalidism of many years. Through this long period of suffering, a nature, always practically inclined, had grown into regarding nearly every phase of this many-sided mortal existence from the aspect of pathos and sadness.

We publish below a letter written by a lawyer, who has become an earnest student and advocate of Christian Science, to a young friend. The letter is interesting and instructive, and will, we are sure, be read with profit by all.

The Granite Monthly published in New Hampshire, for which I requested Christian Scientists to subscribe one year, is not adapted to the issuance of Christian Science literature, and it was not my intention to make it an organ therefor. If you have paid a subscription fee for said magazine one year, that suffices.