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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.

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.

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.