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OF the many interesting relics and fragments of antiquity which have been brought to the light by the persevering researches of modern philosophers, none could have been more interesting to the philanthropist and believer, than the one we publish below. "Chance," says the Courier des Etats unis, "has just put into our hands the most imposing and interesting judicial document to all Christians that ever has been recorded in human annals;" that is, the identical Death Warrant of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So the ministers have really taken up the discussion of what is known, variously, as Christian Science, faith healing, and prayer cure, and are not at one upon the question. It is probable that they do not know any more about it than laymen, unless they have made a special study of it, but when a reverend gentleman takes it upon himself to say, as one has done, that "Christian Science is the counterfeit of the art of divine healing, which has been lost by the church and taken up by the devils," he should be reminded of the words of his Lord and Master, who, in reply to a similar objection, said, with all possible charity, "By their fruits shall ye know them," and of whom the Pharisees said, "He casteth out devils through the prince of devils.

DOC BIXBY in the Lincoln State Journal discusses the medical fraternity as follows: The disciples of homeopathy, in annual convention assembled, have enjoyed a thorough feast of reason and flow of rhetoric, and will return to their homes feeling that it was good to be here. When you come to think of it and think real hard, there is something funny in these conflicting systems of medicine, and it is well for humanity that the schools are not as numerous as the vast and varied systems of theology.

THE above is the title of an excellent article on Christian Science recently printed in Der Westen , a German family weekly of the first rank published at Chicago. The paper is prefaced with a truly classical translation of "The Lamp," from the Christian Science Journal for August.

IN eighteen hundred and sixty-two I was in the United States service, and received a sunstroke which rendered me unconscious for several hours, but being young and strong I was able for duty in a few days. I afterwards suffered from a complication of troubles, peculiar to camp and army life, and last but not least received a gun shot wound which almost terminated my mortal existence.

IS it not possible, that so much having been done for us individually through Christian Science, we are content to accept the blessings, forgetting the great privilege of helping to extend this understanding to the thousands who are waiting and hoping, and working, even as we were striving but a few years ago, in what seems in the light of to-day, a purposeless, ineffectual way? Christian Scientists claim a better understanding of Life— of the true spiritual import of the Bible, and that they are putting that spiritual import into practise. Are they supporting that claim? "Ye are the light of the world.

It has been noted that while God has been referred to as both male and female in the "Woman's Bible," the devil remains male throughout. Why don't they divide him up also?

One of the grandest features of Christian Science is that it inculcates that the acme of true living is in the hearing and obeying of God's Word directly . Love's treasure consists in the fact that it is our privilege through obedience to its Word to realize its completeness and reflect it.

CHRISTIAN Scientists are a peculiar people, zealous of good works. This zeal is born of an understanding that the Light of Life is found in Spirit and not in matter.

THE world of sense is witnessing a mental upheaval. Thought is being resurrected from false material theories, creeds, dogmas and traditions into an actual understanding of the Mind that controlled the man Jesus, enabling its possessors to prove through demonstration, that the day of miracles is not past, but that God's power is "the same yesterday and to-day and forever.