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I Was a great sufferer for twenty-five years and tried all kinds of doctors and medicines, but to no purpose. In 1887, a friend of mine told me that Christian Science would cure me.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. —John, 14: 27.

For a number of years I was connected with the Special Police Force of the City of Pittsburg. In November, 1895, I was taken with loss of appetite.

The increasing number of Christian Scientists in the ranks of the business classes indicates the adaptiveness of Christian Science to the circumstances and requirements of every-day life. Many declare that its methods have healed them, that to them it is "an ever-present help,"—and it is used by them in their business.

From a carefully prepared article in a recent number of the Munsey Magazine ((October, 1898), by Brander Matthews, professor of English literature in Columbia University, we extract the following from what he has to say on "The Future of the English Language:"— "In the fourteenth century, the population of France was about ten millions, and that of the British Isles probably less than four millions, In both territories there were certainly many who did not speak the chief language; yet the proportion of those who spoke French to those who spoke English was at least ten to four. "Now we are nearing the last year of the nineteenth century, which has been a period of unexampled expansion for the English speaking race, who have spread to India, to Australia, and to Africa, besides filling up the western parts of the United States; they now number probably a hundred and twenty-six millions.

Dear Editor: —During my recent travels abroad, while visiting my husband's mother in Peterhead, Scotland, I was asked by the Rev. J.

I Am not a musician, but this morning I felt as if my heart was one overflowing song, though the words were simple, "God's love, God's love. " I was brought up under a bondage of fear.

On my father's side of the family there was a strong claim of biliousness and liver complaint in a most aggravated form. From a child if anything was the matter with me, I knew at once that I was bilious.

It is three and a half years since health, strength, courage, and ambition thoroughly failed. I early became interested in study, and "big ambition" in a "little body" led me to finish my studies.

We well know that any thought of Truth whether it goes out verbally, in a silent treatment, or by means of the pen, if the motive is honest, and the purpose sincere, that it cannot return void, or fall uselessly to the ground. When the Christian Science Journals are received at our office, each one takes a copy, everything else is dropped, however important, and silence reigns as it did in heaven for the space of half an hour, and perhaps for the same reason, viz.