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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.

7 Albermarle St. , Boston.

Henry F. Middleton , a New York antiquarian, has found at the home of Jason Aldrich, a farmer living near East Cornwall, Conn.

96 Fifth Ave. , N.

When a girl of sixteen I had an attack of spinal meningitis that laid the foundation for years of invalidism, although I never gave up completely to it until after I was married. The sudden death of my mother, who had been all the world to me, followed by the birth of my little daughter, seemed the beginning of seven long years of suffering, physical and mental.

Among the Christmas remembrances from students to our Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was one of a nature so beautiful and unique that it is worthy of mention and a brief description in our Journal.