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A constantly recurring objection against the work and methods of Christian Science is that Scientists charge for their service. This objection is founded upon a twofold fallacy: a fallacy as to fact and as to theory.

It is sometimes asked, If Christian Science be true, why did God wait so long before revealing it? Why were we left in darkness—if indeed it was darkness to suffer, to struggle, and to fail, if it all leads to no result? Why, indeed? Why have innocent children been allowed to die or to suffer for the sins of their parents by worse than death? Why have consecrated saints been tortured physically and mentally by the relentless hands of disease and despair? Why has a loving and a just God permitted it all, standing helpless "at our right hand" or "covering us with his feathers" in vain? Let us consider these things: clearly there is fault. The question is, does it lie with God or with the world? Nearly two thousand years ago in a lowly town of Judæa, a babe of humble parentage was born.

A beautiful flower, when viewed through a defective pane of glass, may appear unsightly. Likewise many a noble character is obscured from us by our own misconceptions.

I have seen some that have set out as if they would drive all the world before them, who yet have, in a few days, died as they in the wilderness, and so never got sight of the promised land. I have seen some that have promised nothing at first setting out to be pilgrims, and who one would have thought could not have lived a day, that have yet proved very good pilgrims.

Professor Herron of Iowa College, at a Monday lecture, November 28, 1898, spoke on "The Conflict of Christ and Christianity. " The speaker said in part:— The religious problem of to-day, which has already waited with over-patience for the Church, is an economic problem; it is not a problem of more churches and church members.

Material theories insist that life is structural and organic, controlled by bodily or physical conditions, subject to laws of matter,—sin, sickness, and death. Jesus, that great lexicographer of the "new tongue," gave as his definition, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Over a year ago I met with a "belief" of an accident. To a non-believer in our glorious Truth, the preceding assertion of a belief of an accident may seem strange, but I trust that before I have finished relating certain facts, I shall be able to convince you of the truth of the above statement.

In England, rightly or wrongly (except in isolated instances, the latter), there is a popular impression that anything emanating from America in the way of journalistic statements must be taken cum grano salis, and a very large one at that sometimes. Noticing that in the Journal the testimonies of healing and other demonstrations are, for the most part, American or Canadian, for the benefit of my fellow-countrymen who may be doubting Thomases, I write to give them a few personal experiences of Christian Science as a healing agent.

Has the state the right to interfere in a case of sickness and prescribe the method of treatment? This question, or the substance of it, in one form or another, is much discussed at the present time, and particularly before the legislatures of the different states where bills for the regulation of the practice of medicine are being urged upon the attention of the law-makers. The ground upon which state interference is urged, and the only one upon which it could properly be invoked, is, that the welfare of the individual demands it; that there are many persons unqualified to treat disease who are attempting to do so, and who are a menace to the welfare of the community; and that, as a matter of fact, because of the practice of these unqualified persons, people are injured physically, and frequently hurried to an untimely grave; that these people practise not only without the knowledge of scientific principles in regard to the nature and treatment of diseases, but in direct defiance thereof.

The largest Bible in the world is in the Vatican. It is a manuscript Bible and written in Hebrew.