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In the religious world a New Hampshire woman has come to the forefront in the person of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, who has discovered and founded a religious and ethical system which is bound, by its very nature, to supersede all other religions.

Mr . William George Jordan, a brilliant and forcible writer of New York City, in a recent number of Current Literature , thus ably animadverts upon the recent legislation in New York providing for the introduction into the public schools, of experimental study as to the effects of alcoholic drinks upon the system.

Henry Watterson paid this tribute to Abraham Lincoln in his speech on Lincoln's Birthday: "His was the genius of common sense. Inspired as truly as were Shakespeare, Mozart and Burns, he was surely inspired of God.

The following article, headlined a "Strange Cure," is from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of March 2, 1896: "To the average educated and uneducated mind alike, there is a species of repugnance toward accepting a statement that this or that person was cured of a malignant ill without the assistance of the man of orthodox medicine. Christian Science has not obtained such widespread recognition that any great attention has been given it, especially in Cincinnati.

Dear Journal: — A few days ago I received a letter from my dear friend and sister living in Denver, Colorado. She wrote of the sermon delivered on the first Sunday in January in the Boston church by our dear Mother, Mrs.

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It is sometimes instructive as well as amusing, to hear what grounds are taken by the opponents of Christian Science, and it is true that the more these opponents say, the more convinced we become that there is no cause for any opposition, for I have never yet seen an article or a sermon that made a single logical objection to this greatest of all sciences, which is teaching us how to find God a present help in every trouble. We do find Him.

In an age when noise and bustle seem the rule, and quiet, restful thought the exception, it is well to pause and consider the import of this silent utterance which came to the prophet above the tumult of the "strong wind," the "earthquake," and the "fire. " ( 1 Kings 19:11, 12.

Self-Mesmerism is the abnormal condition of human beings. It is the result of their unbelief in the one and only Mind that is Omnipotent Intelligence, and the belief that each mortal has a mind of his own, a spirit of his own, an existence of his own.

The First Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, shall hold their Communion service on the Sunday following the quarterly Sacrament at the Mother Church. Both on Communion Sunday and weekly the same form of religious worship shall be observed by all the churches of our denomination.