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A Times reporter yesterday accepted the general invitation which is extended in these columns weekly to attend the services in Grange Hall. He found a group of earnest devotees of this novel gospel, who greeted him with quiet cordiality.

By permission of Col. Sabin, editor of the Washington News Letter, we herewith publish extracts from a very interesting article written by the Colonel, entitled, "Personal Experience," being an account of his coming into an understanding and acceptance of the teachings of Christian Science.

The following is a copy of a letter written by a sister to her brother. The Valetta, Red Sea, October 24, 1898.

Dear Editor: —It is clear that the call of Wisdom to support the Christian Science Journal and Weekly —those avenues of Love and vehicles of Good—is not fully obeyed by simply subscribing for these publications. Financial support is not all that is required.

While engaged in the practice of the law in my state, it fell to my lot to be appointed by the Court in my county, as the "Committee" of a so-called hopeless lunatic; a man who otherwise seemed to be of sturdy frame and vigor. Having assumed control and charge of his estate and affairs in compliance with the law, I decided, for certain reasons, to visit the unfortunate, who was then closely confined in a narrow cell in jail awaiting his transference to the State Asylum.

When Christian Science came to our home a year ago, we had sickness and misery of almost every kind. My husband had been sick for nine years.

After trying for over six years to "come into" Christian Science truly, and experiencing periods of exaltation and times of depression when, like the Israelites of old, I strayed or nodded, I seem led to write a word that I hope may encourage some other earnest but tried seeker. As our dear Mother says in the "little book," "Love is not hasty to deliver us from temptation, for Love means that we are to be tried and purified.

To those Jews, who boasted that they were Abraham's seed and "never in bondage to any man," Jesus said, "If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. " They believed themselves to be free men, but Jesus knew that they were far from realizing the freedom of that man who was made in the image and likeness of God.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ says "repent," he means that the whole life of his followers on the earth is a constant and continual repentance. — Luther.

Loyal Christian Scientists who have received certificates of the degree C. S.