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From a child of seven years to my twenty-third year I was the victim of what is called epilepsy. I could not play as other children did, without falling in an epileptic fit, and I noticed that my playmates were afraid to go anywhere with me, and kept aloof; that made me very sensitive, and I remember my school life as quite a sad one on account of my affliction.

Three years ago this month (January, 1897), I made my first bow to a Christian Scientist after a long and fruitless search for Truth in the tangled wilderness of "ists" and "isms" which go to make up this latter-day Christianity. I searched "from Dan to Beersheba," beginning with the Roman Catholic Church, in which I received my early training.

I was born in Central New York, My father was the Sunday-school superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school of Ithaca, from before I was born until I became my own master. My brothers and sisters were earnest workers in the church, and members of it.

Christian Science services are held at "Red Men's" Hall, Main street, every Sunday at 10. 30 A.

About four years ago, a student of Christian Science moved to a Canadian town where there were no Scientists, The study of the Bible Lessons was begun at once, although there were but three in the family to attend the service. "Not in the words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and with power.

Without Faith it is impossible to please Him. —  Heb.

Editors Journal :—The following letter from the clerk of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Buffalo, N. Y.

By the 10th of February next, Mr. Armstrong, the publisher, expects to have in his hands ready for delivery, a new book of our Leader, the Rev.

With much regret we are compelled to say that Christmas, 1896, brings scant joy to the children of mankind, measured by the usual ebullition of merrymaking and giving of presents—because, by misgovernment they have poverty and distress as their portion to such an extent that millions of voices, hitherto joyous on this occasion, will now be subdued or silent. But if this subjection or absence of animal spirits shall serve to bring mankind nearer and into closer communion with the Source of All Life, to a more intimate understanding of Man as the image and likeness of God, then truly will the sadness of a disheartened people be turned into an inheritance of untold wealth.

A Young up-town physician who, during the past fifteen years, has built up a large and flourishing practice, has thrown his medicines and surgical instruments aside and adopted the Christian Science method of healing. Dr.