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The announcement that Rev. Dr.

William Bradford Dickson , formerly proprietor of the Dickson Shorthand School in the Bayard Building, is an enthusiastic exponent of Christian Science. He read with much interest Rev.

Real sense is mental and not material. If it were not so all men would see alike, hear alike, smell the same smell, taste the same taste, and all have the same sense of touch.

On a railway train the "peace and rest" of all the passengers was much disturbed by the pitiful crying of a babe in the arms of its mother, who had three other children demanding a share of her attention. Varying theories were exchanged among the occupants of the car, as to the probable cause of the child's discomfort, but the crying continued and seemed to grow worse, none of the passengers venturing to do anything, until several commercial travellers appointed one of their number a committee to appeal to the conductor to put "the woman and her young ones into the smoker," but that official replied that, having paid her fare, she had just as much right in the first-class coach as any one.

It is often said by those who are just beginning to investigate Christian Science, and those who are too blind to see, that there is little or no difference between Christian Science and Orthodoxy. Looking deeply into this thought, we see, if this is true, that our Leader, Mrs.

The startling suggestion has mentally come to me: "You never have written of your healing to the Journal, although always intending to do so, even looking forward to the work with pleasant anticipation, when one remaining victory shall have been won. If the privilege were to be taken from you while waiting to be every whit whole, how would you feel? Is not this postponement a temptation to prevent your testifying to the good already received?" Moreover, I agree with others that more frequent reports of God's dealings with us in and about Boston, New England's Jerusalem, should be forthcoming; for surely Bostonians, of all people, have an abundance out of which to give for the cheer and encouragement of the brethren.

To-day , the first day of April, 1897, is the fifth anniversary of my first treatment in Christian Science. For fifteen years, I had been regarded as an invalid, and finally was pronounced by my physicians beyond all human help.

A remark recently made by one who had been a college instructor of foot-races, was overheard by a Christian Scientist at a time when the application was of extreme practical value to the Scientist. If of value to one it can be to another, and so is sent to the Journal with the hope that, if published, it may bring timely courage to those doing battle with the errors of sin and sickness.

Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free. —John, 8:32.

Ye shall understand the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free —John 8: 32 (Rotherham). I have the privilege of visiting many fields where Christian Science waves aloft a white banner, upon which is inscribed, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead.