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It is a little over four years since I said to myself one day, "I believe I will look into this Christian Science I hear of, and see what it is. I don't want to talk to any one about it, but I will try to get hold of some of their books and study it for myself.

Volumes upon volumes have been written on Baptism by Baptists and Pedobaptists. Acrimonious debates and controversies have been indulged in to prove on the one side that adults only can be baptized, and on the other side that infants, as well as adults, must be baptized.

Remarks of J. Edward Smith at a regular Wednesday Evening Subject Meeting of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Masonic Temple, Poughkeepsie, N.

A beautiful picture of the Rev. Mary Baker G.

The following letters are self-explanatory:— Ottawa, August 16, 1898. My Dear Mr.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee. The peace, happiness, and prosperity of a Christian Scientist must come through individual growth.

Weeks have passed since I forwarded to the Clerk of the Mother Church, integrals of this article. Changing currents moving the weather vane, Church meetings, amendment of Rules, items nameless, have delayed the publication of the following notice written last August:— All true Christian Scientists, loyal in spirit and in Truth, whether they have become thus by studying my works on Christian Science or by class instruction, who bring with them the credentials required of a candidate for membership with the Mother Church, are eligible to apply to the Christian Science Board of Education for examination.

My Dear Sir :— In answer to your letter asking me what I think of my treatment by the American people, a subject upon which I conversed with you before, and about the probability of its being known to my countrymen through the press of Spain, I am inclined to think that the inhabitants of my native country have changed their minds about the barbarity of the Americans, as has been always told us, and further, that I have no doubt that once peace is declared the Spaniards will recognize the gentlemanly treatment of their brethren, now prisoners in America. It may be possible that some ignorant persons of my native country, who, personally blinded by the sensational utterances of the Spanish papers, have given expression to hate regarding America; but I do not believe any person of social standing and education, after what America has done for us, will continue to hate the people and the government which now holds us prisoners.

From a lecture recently delivered by Professor Bland, LL. D.

We herewith publish almost entire a remarkable and forceful sermon, bearing the above title, recently delivered in Kansas City, by the Rev. J.