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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.

Dear Editor: —After I was healed of long-standing ailments by Christian Science, I wrote to my niece of the great change I had experienced. I wrote in the joy of my heart, hoping that they might try the same remedy, for all three of their family were invalids, and the mother has since passed on.

Christian Scientists would do well to remember that according to St. Luke when at one time "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted" our Master and Way-shower, asking, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" he answered, "What is written in the law? how readest thou?" My experience has taught me that the temptation to attempt over-much when asked advice along certain lines in Christian Science must be prayerfully and humbly guarded against.

An attempt to explain the import of these teachings which we read in the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew might remind one of that useless effort which we have many times heard referred to, namely, the gilding of pure gold.

Having never yet written for the Journal and being conscious of having received much encouragement from the articles of others appearing in its pages, gratitude impels me to record my experience in the hope that it may prove of benefit to some seeker. Less than three years ago, I was induced to attend the Friday night testimonial meetings of the Christian Scientists of this city.

Wednesday evening, December 21, 1898, in the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Atlanta, Georgia, before a large and appreciative audience, Mrs. Livingston Mims delivered a most interesting lecture.

The Publishing Society has felt and still entertains a friendly interest in the Washington News Letter, and through the loving counsel and admonition of our beloved Leader—not to "cast the first stone"—we trust that this attitude has been put upon the truly Christian and Scientific basis. The editor of the News Letter in a recent editorial says of his paper, that it is "not a Christian Science organ, nor is it a Christian Science publication.

The question is oftentimes asked, From which church denominations does Christian Science gain the greatest following? Those who feel the need of it are the first to accept it, and we find hungry and needy ones in all churches and out of the churches, and in all positions and vocations in life. Christian Science offers itself as a purely metaphysical method of restoring health and harmony, and for this reason it finds few followers from those who believe themselves successful in material methods.