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Boston, Mass. My Dear: —You ask, "Could there not be another power beside God which God has control over, and uses to punish people?" In the first place, the Bible tells us that God is Good, that all He made is Good and is like Himself.

As we look back over the struggles and sufferings of mankind, we wonder there has not been a greater effort made to understand why God's promises were not verified, and that apparently so little search has been made for the solution of this mystery. Here and there some aching heart has cried out to God, but has not always heard the answer, and many times no answer came, for the seeker did not know how to find Him; but the world, as a whole, has seemed strangely apathetic on this most important subject, for when these promises shall be fulfilled, as they surely will be, the whole earth will be transformed and filled with the glory of God.

Dear Journal :—The opening services of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Philadelphia, were held on Sunday, September 18, in the church edifice, which will hereafter be its home, on North Twenty-first Street near Fairmount Avenue; it having outgrown its former quarters in old Mercantile Library. There was a large attendance at both the morning and evening services, a notable feature being the number of prominent people to be seen in the congregations on both occasions.

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.