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Special Despatch to the Globe-Democrat. Punta Gorda, Fla.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. —Proverbs 10: 15.

We make the following extract from a long and interesting article recently published in the Inter-Ocean of Chicago, written by a correspondent from Boston. An unprejudiced observer would certainly be greatly puzzled to explain the uncompromisingly bellicose attitude maintained by many Christian people, including a majority, perhaps, of the clergy, toward the movement generally known under the name of Christian Science, but frequently referred to, contemptuously, as "Boston's latest religious fad.

My Dear Mrs. Eddy :— I feel that I may thus familiarly address you, for though a stranger to you in the conventional sense, I may say that you seem near and dear to me for what you have taught me.

Toronto, Oct. 30, 1895.

I Have been asked to chronicle for the Journal an experience of the power of Truth. My business has to do with iron furnaces, commonly known as blast furnaces, in which iron ore is smelted and purified.

One day this week our young daughter came home from her music lesson with a metronome. (For the benefit of some who may be as ignorant as I was, let me say the metronome is a small machine for indicating the correct time and speed at which a musical composition should be played.

Since becoming a student of Christian Science it has been my observation, with few exceptions, that among the most liberal, interested and rational people with whom I converse or have correspondence upon the subject, outside of Science, are members of the medical fraternity; especially those whose minds have been broadened and matured by years of experience in their profession. The exceptions, however, have been radically reversed when I have happened to come in contact with an ecclesiastic.

The question is often asked, why do not the thinkers of the age who seem to be so earnestly seeking higher things, the writers, the preachers, the natural scientists, who in so many ways seem to prophesy of Christian Science, and almost point to it with the finger of an unconscious John the Baptist, perceive and follow this demonstrable Truth? Now all questions are answered by Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mrs. Eddy's other works.

Alexander Wells , an old citizen of our neighboring town of Wellsville, Ohio, has in his possession a copy of an interesting and novel document issued by the school board of the town of Lancaster, this State, in 1828. The question of steam railroads was then in its incipient stages of agitation, and a club of young men had been formed for the purpose of discussing the points at issue, and desired the use of the schoolhouse for purposes of debate.