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Dear Journal: —By recounting recounting a few of the blessings that Christian Science has brought me, I hope to partially repay my debt to it. I cannot be grateful enough for the wonderful and unexpected benefit that I have received from its teaching.

A Photograph was recently sent to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy from Hannover, Germany, of so novel and significant a nature that we deem it worthy of notice.

Dear Journal: —The article, "Fear Destroyed," published in the September issue of our precious Journal, has reminded me, every time I have read it, of some great "bogey-bears" that used to fill my days with fear, and that Truth has destroyed for me. The greatest of these was the fear of taking cold.

Since my earliest recollection the thought of invalidism has been held over me. All the diseases of my ancestors for generations seemed to be fastened upon me, and I was in the hands of the doctors from babyhood up.

It would be difficult to improve on the following definition of Christian Science given by one of the physicians in a neighboring town, though he is not in sympathy with Science. He said: "Christian Science is not doctoring, it is Christianity.

About nineteen months ago, my attention was called to Christian Science by a friend whose wife had been greatly benefited by it. Prior to this time I had run the gauntlet of infidelity, theosophy, suggestive therapeutics (hypnotism), materia medica, Ralstonism (more hypnotism), and finally landed in spiritualism.

There is inherent in the nature of every man a desire for a higher attainment of life–experience than can be wrested from the visible material surroundings. Beginning early in life—sooner with some than with others—there comes an inward awakening, a reaching upward and outward toward the realization of a soul–born ideal.

I Was born and raised a Methodist, and at the age of fourteen was formally admitted into the church, and have remained there ever since. Some ten years ago a daughter who had suffered untold misery for years, and had been treated by the best physicians in the country, and had taken so much strong medicine that she was entirely helpless, was wonderfully and permanently cured by a few treatments in Christian Science.

On this subject of "The Mission of Christian Science," there is so much to be said, that I can aim to give you, at this time, only the briefest outlines, with the hope that these may serve as an incentive to further interest and investigation hereafter. There is a somewhat prevalent notion that Christian Scientists look upon the ills of this present sense of existence with lofty unconcern, and content themselves with saying, "There is nothing the matter with the world,—Good is everywhere, and the only reality, hence we need not trouble ourselves over the flimsy appearances of that which is not real.

The following letter from our Leader was written in January last for publication in some of our newspapers, but not having been so used, it is now our privilege to present it to the readers of the Journal. My Dear Editors:— Because Christian Scientists love to hear from me, I will write for you occasionally, and do thou with my letter whatsoever seemest to thee good.