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Some one has said, "The whole world is on the wrong scent for happiness. " Every one wants to be happy, but few want to take the trouble of going about it in the right way.

The question asked in the headline may sound odd to you if you have never taken the trouble to give the subject serious thought, but I venture the broad statement that you are not able to answer the question "offhand. "' It is an admitted fact, I must confess, that the eye is the "organ of vision," yet there is but little doubt, even in the minds of opticians and physiologists, that the phenomenon of "seeing" is chiefly mental — in other words, that it is the mind and not the eye that sees.

The world is certainly growing in wisdom. Mortal mind is seeking something higher than that which has hitherto satisfied it.

The August number of the Journal is received, and I desire to acknowledge my appreciation of the "Editor's Table. " It reminds us of the necessity there is for being Christianly scientific, in what are frequently termed "the little things.

I hereby notify the loyal Christian Scientists who use the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as their text books, to organize immediately a Sunday School for the children. The lessons to commence immediately after the Sunday services.

The following is a copy of a letter recently written by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy to Mrs.

In a letter to the editor Mrs. Eddy writes :— "The Rules and By-laws in the manual of The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, were not made in solemn conclave and with arbitrary sentiment as in ancient Sanhedrim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson , in a Phi Beta Kappa oration on "The Progress of Culture," recounts the gains of the reform movement as follows:— Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted. The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.

SUDDENLY came a sense of usual routine of habit gone; several weeks, several Sabbaths to regulate in use for one's self. I find in the push and rush of the weeks gone by, much was put one side for lack of time.

A FEW days ago I was called to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to help dedicate a church builded by the Christian Scientists in that place and vicinity. Stillwater is an inland town of about one thousand inhabitants.