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We have often desired to write for the Journal our experience in having to defend Christian Science in the courts in Canada. But the constant demand upon our time has caused us to put it off for a more convenient season.

The devotion of students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," toward its author, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is often unpleasantly remarked upon by the world. Even those impressed by the letter of Science, who believe in the healing work, seem sometimes a trifle dazed on this point, by an indefinite prejudice against hero-worship, which, strange to say, never troubled them in their days of devotion to, say, Emerson, or Phillips Brooks.

This chapter of the apostle Paul's has received many names of high esteem in popular discourse and writing, as, "The Anthem of Love," "The Psalm of Love," "The Song of Love" for the New Testament, as the "Song of Songs," which is Solomon's, is for the Old Testament. The Forty-fifth Psalm has the title, "A Song of Loves," and with rich and rare rhetoric it prophesies poetically of spiritual love as much as the Hebrew times could; but in this chapter St.

" 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.