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From the Utica (Ill. ) Weekly Gazette we take the following:— The Baptist ministers of Chicago, at their regular meeting a week ago Monday, assailed Christian Science.

Christian Science is not a new theory, but the revival of that divine law established by Jesus during his career on earth, and which was adhered to for three hundred years subsequent thereto; but after that time religion became entangled with politics, and the higher law, which included healing the sick, was excluded from religious worship. We are frequently accosted with the assertion that Jesus endowed the twelve disciples exclusively with the power to heal; but a close search of the Scriptures proves this to be an erroneous idea.

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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.

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.

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.

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.