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On the morning of the dedication of the Chicago church, November 14, 1898, I was in my bedroom in the third story of our house (the house is three stories and basement). I was getting ready to go to the morning service, and my little daughter, five years old, was playing about, when suddenly I felt a silence.

I was led to seek help in Christian Science through the illness of my mother, who lay about three months helpless with rheumatic fever. Her case was considered hopeless by two schools of medicine, Allopathic and Homœopathic.

I met with an accident March 18, 1885. I was thrown off of my feet to the forward end of a smoking-car.

One cannot but be impressed with the prominence and significance of the Scriptural number seven, as he looks down the pages of a concordance. God rested on the seventh day; the clean beasts and fowls went into the ark by sevens; there were seven years of plenteousness and seven years of dearth in Egypt; seven priests bearing seven trumpets compassed Jericho seven times; Solomon was seven years in building the temple; there were seven loaves to feed the multitude; seven deacons were chosen by the apostles; and in the Apocalypse there are mentioned, seven churches, seven spirits, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven seals, seven angels.

We herewith publish what seems to us an interesting prophecy. The article is entitled, "The Church in the Wilderness," and is contained in a little book written in 1838 by the Rev.

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.