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" I am sure that Orthodox Christianity is a thing of the past. The Liberal churches have had a mission.

Concord, N. H.

It may be of interest to know that the Christian Science church of this city has achieved a good, substantial growth during its few years of struggle for a foothold in Colorado Springs. During the past five or six years it has gained, from an average attendance of not exceeding twenty-five individuals, to an audience completely filling the one hundred and twenty-five chairs provided.

Oakland, February 27, 1898. —At the Church of the Advent in East Oakland, the Rev.

The Rev. B.

St. Joseph, Mo.

Concord, N. H.

I First heard of Christian Science about eleven years ago. A lady boarding in the same house with us was reading Science and Health, and from her conversation at the table concerning it I caught but one word that I can remember, and that was "error.

In an editorial in The Christian Endeavor World, of Boston and Chicago, under recent date, appears the following:— "The Christian Scientists have dedicated in Chicago the largest church of that denomination in the world. It cost more than $100,000, and seats two thousand people.

When Christian Science came to me I stood in deeper need of it than I realized. As a boy I was brought up in the arms of the church, and took a strong interest in religious questions; but this interest lay chiefly in the direction of how to avoid eternal punishment.