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For some time I have been thinking that my experience previous to becoming a student of Christian Science might be helpful to someone passing through a similar experience; and I trust that in my narrating it through your pages some seeker may find a thought of encouragement to persevere in the straight path of Truth. For thirteen years I was a severe sufferer from some hidden disease that defied the skill of many eminent physicians.

From childhood I was believed to be delicate, and many were the remedies applied to make me robust, without avail. At an early age I showed a decided preference for study, and so prepared for teaching.

The pupil cannot explain the process of a problem until he has worked it out for himself. True, he may repeat by rote the rule, but the proof lies in the work.

While we Christian Scientists as a body are rejoicing in the casting off of the old and putting on the new man—the divine immaculate concept born of Truth and righteousness—it is of interest, now and again, to look without and note how mortal mind is being educated out of itself. As another sign of these times, I give below a short abstract of an address delivered at the Convention of Natural Scientists in Lubeck, Germany, September 20,1895, by Professor W.

When more than a century ago, a modest, New England woman, Miss Hannah Adams by name, ventured a little journey into the domain of literature, which had hitherto been unexplored by American women, her unprecedented departure from conventional usage seemed to demand an apology. In the preface to her "History of New England," she humbly deprecated her presumption in the quaint phraseology of the day.

A Hospital surgeon tells a touching story of a patient's illness. A few day ago a woman was sent from Gouverneur Hospital, New York, to Bellevue.

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.

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.

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.