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In looking over the back volumes of our Journal, one is reminded of commencement and anniversary orations and essays delivered by "callow youths" and "sweet girl graduates," who descant learnedly upon themes that are puzzling the brains of many of their white haired hearers. A few years later in life, if called upon for an article for publication or to be read to some literary society, how different would be the subject selected.

Not long ago I was present in the studio of a painter, and became very much interested in the subject; use, and mission of backgrounds. The painter showed me, among other pictures, some partially executed ones upon which he was at work.

" If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. " These are the words of John in his first Epistle, verified by his Master, Jesus Christ.

The following letter is the result of the work of Miss Annie Dodge, in England. — Editor.

A letter from a classmate in Science lies open before me. It expresses a thought that seems to be held by quite a number of Scientists in a more or less pronounced form.

A discourse preached on a Christmas occasion by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Reading so many letters in the Journal from the little brother and sister Scientists, it made me feel as though I would like to write one too. Last fall I had a very severe belief of sickness, one that would have left me a cripple for life, if the doctors had cared for me; but Christian Science healed me completely.

There is one family where this blessed Science has been the help and stay of mother and little ones for nearly four years. There are five boys, less than fourteen years of age.

Truth perfects praise "out of the mouth of babes" in varied and wondrous ways. Our little one, aged four and a half years, corrects, with a child's quick perception of Science, every unscientific seeming in us, and teaches us many valuable lessons in Truth.

A little boy, having become much excited at seeing a drunken man brutally abuse his horse, appeared convulsed with terror. After Christian Science treatment, and restoration to his usual happy condition, he asked,—"What made me better?" He was told that "God is Love, and is always near us; and that if he would remember this, and often think of it, he need not be afraid of anything; that God is our Father, and the children who remember this, and love only to be good, are quite safe in His care.