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A SICKLY sentimentalism foists itself upon the public and says "I am Love. I am too pure and sweet and gentle to recognize evil or hate, and if I see my brother doing wrong I hold him in thought as doing right so it is unnecessary to speak to him and point out his error lest he be angry with me and seek to injure me.

Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman. Health or sound organization should be universal.

I have  thought many times I would write a little of our experience for the Journal, thinking it might help some one else; for the experiences of others have been a great help to me. About five and a half years ago I went through a class.

NOT long since I was conversing with a lady who is a member of the M. E.

THE first thing that comes to my thought is, if I would leave off the last word of the above remark, it would not receive so much criticism from the professing Christians. I was a professing Christian for years, and now I see I was not a Christian in reality until I became one through the study of Christian Science, as given in Science and Health.

The following clipping from a daily newspaper shows that the possibility of a Scientific church has dawned upon some minds which, a few years since, scoffed at the suggestion of a Scientific religion: After Mr. Sankey had sung and the audience had joined in a swelling chorus, Joseph Cook was introduced.

HAVING in however slight a degree, apprehended the new revelation of God and man as Principle and idea, the Christian Scientist finds the study of the life of Jesus abounding with illustrations and demonstrations of cause and effect. Instead of a marvelous mosaic of glorious deeds and words, to human sense beyond understanding, he finds a well-connected, underlying system of thinking that fills him with delight and amazement.

IN this, XV chapter of Luke, are three parables. First; that of the lost sheep, Second: the lost piece of silver, Third: the prodigal son.

"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. " Matt.

Every latest interpretation of truth, if it is in the line of its natural evolution, must be a new point of view, or utter some new emphasis that has not had place before. Is it not possible that we see a ray of first truth emitted by what is called "Christian Science "that may break forth into a great light? The trouble is that the rising, advancing gleams, so surely needed by men, shine unrecognized and go unheeded, or, worse, are declared to be darkness.