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For seventeen years I sought for health and happiness through materia medica and the teachings of Christianity as it is preached from the pulpit, with the result that I found both getting farther and farther from my reach. When I had about come to the conclusion there was nothing left for me but to die, Christian Science was brought to my notice.

Dear Journal :—When I was about sixteen years old I began to seek after what the church calls religion. I became very anxious to get what so many church members claimed to have, and I sought long and earnestly for it.

All true Christian Scientists know of the reluctance one feels in speaking of self in connection with God's work; but, as His humble child, I have been allowed to sow the seed in Paris, Dresden, and Home. Fifty copies of Science and Health have been sold and distributed since last spring in Paris.

Dear Journal: — A recent visit from an earnest Scientist from "abroad," who inquired in detail as to our method of work, together with many interesting and helpful reports from, other branch churches, published in the Journal, has induced our Board to instruct the following, taken from our last quarterly report, to be sent you, with the thought that possibly others might get another helpful hint. This Church was incorporated January 13, 1893.

As a clergyman my eyes were blinded to certain patent facts. I did not so intend, but I now know that I read into the Bible what was not there, and read out of it what was there.

Some time ago we published an interview with Dr. Frank W.

" SCIENCE and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has recently been placed in the "Fisk Free and Public Library" of New Orleans; also the Journal. The text-book is now in all the public libraries of that city.

A Christian Scientist in England has kindly sent us a newspaper clipping containing a letter which was read at one of the excursions of the British Medical Congress by Dr. Yeats, of Chepstow, written by Thomas Carlyle, and which was never made public until published in the Bristol Times.

It is not generally known, but it is a fact that there is a religious body in Pottsville, called the Christian Scientists. They have been meeting at the home of one of their number on West Norwegian Street, but now their numbers are so strong that they have leased the store-room in the Whitney building at the corner of Centre and Union Streets.

" WYCKLIFFE'S version brings before us another word, which. unhappily has suffered in the lapse of time.