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To the Editor of the Herald: — The allusion in your issue of the 8th inst. to the word pantheism in my Message to the Mother Church has arrived late for me to correct it.

Edited by Col. Oliver C.

It is one of the wonders of Christian Science that its adherents will gladly stop in the midst of their daily cares of business and talk with you about God and Christ and the healing of mind and body. In the big office buildings of this city a number of busy men have fitted up little side rooms where they can receive and consult those who desire to be healed.

This is the age of Trusts. The trust permeates every department of industrial and professional life.

This familiar picture of the scene where Jesus sat at the well, while he conversed with the woman of Samaria, illustrates how naturally the carnal mind takes the material view of spiritual things. It is not strange that this woman did not understand the Christ.

Dear Journal :—The May Journal has just been read. Inferring to the case which we had here a year ago in the courts on the charge of "practising medicine without a license," I want to say that, whatever the Court meant in the statement, "evidence of criminal negligence," so far as Christian Science was concerned there was none.

About five years ago Christian Science was first brought to the notice of the public in Bowie, Texas. At first it was received with open arms.

For the benefit of the little ones who like to know what other children are doing, I will tell how this small band has increased since we organized, and the work it has done. We began with an attendance of two; we now average twenty each Sunday, divided into four classes.

The happiness of attending the January, 1898, Communion Service at the Mother Church in Boston, was mine. There I learned many things, and the uplifting of the occasion is with me still, a very palpable presence.

Although earnestly endeavoring to live and demonstrate the teachings of Christian Science to the best of my understanding, and with a sincere desire to fulfil the wishes of our dear Teacher and Leader, out of deep gratitude for all she has done for me, for mine, and for humanity, it has only recently been strongly impressed on my thought that I had neglected one duty certainly in not writing for the Journal , which always brings to me so much refreshment and help. Error has suggested that there were plenty of Scientists, doubtless, who were sending in articles, and that possibly the editors had more material than they could publish, but I should have known that no matter whether my contribution went into the Journal or not, if I did my duty, if I was obedient, it was all I need concern myself about, except to try to write some word which might help another, in case it ever should reach the pages of our monthly.