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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. —Romans 12: 21.

About five years ago Christian Science was first brought to my attention by the healing of a very dear friend, who, when I left my home in the morning, was lying on the lounge suffering from a very severe attack of asthma. When I returned in the evening I found her entirely healed.

Christian Science , like all great things, has its history— a history as yet, perhaps, largely unwritten; but occasionally circumstances arise which show the progress that Truth is making, and then those on the watch-towers of thought give God thanks for His guidance and the priceless blessings of His Love. One of the more recent phases of error, or mortal mind seems to be the attempt to hinder the demonstration of Truth by some system of so-called legislation.

Correspondents with the Clerk of the Mother Church upon matters pertaining to the Church are requested, when signing their letters, to write one at least of their given names in full. Ladies should write their own, not their husbands' names.

Now that it is well understood that prayer has an important place in Christian Science, may it not be in order to ask whether it can be justly claimed that the prayer of the Bible is the prayer of Christian Science! As the son of a clergyman, and later as a clergyman myself, I was educated to unquestioning belief in the prevailing doctrine of prayer as practised by the modern church. The study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G.

Chicago now has its sensation in the trial of sausage-maker Luetgert, for the murder of his wife, and the morbid element of the reading public will devour the details, little thinking of the possible injury to themselves of holding in thought, such unhealthful mind pictures. The Biblical declaration that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he" — which is doubtless more literally true than humanity admits — is a constant admonition to a careful discrimination as to the mental food of which we daily partake.

The human mind is like a great mansion with many rooms. The conscious thought occupies a few of these rooms, and, because of its ignorance, it believes that it occupies the whole mansion; but this is not so.

About eighteen years ago I was visiting at my old home, near Boston, and called upon a friend, whose daughter had been healed by some one who had read some books. I saw the books for a very few moments while making this call, and they attracted me as no other book had ever done.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life!—Titus, 3:5-7. It is not by works of righteousness, but according to his mercy.

The following account of Christian Scientists' work in Bloomington is contributed by one of the leading members of the church. The Christian Scientists of this city, have just completed the interior decoration and changes of their church edifice, which they recently purchased, known as the Independent Church.