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[Agreeable to the invitation of the Editor of Zion's Herald, through his contributor, Prof. Townsend, the following letter was submitted and refused admission in the columns of the Herald.

571 Columbus Avenue. Boston, March 21, 1885.

Dear Readers, — My little son, five years old, was taken with scarlatina, sore throat and very high fever. The third day he broke out in a thick rash, the neck very much swollen, and throat worse.

A few heated clergymen having made the following false charges against Science and Health, we shall reply by quotations from the work:— "'Science and Health' teaches free-love. " Read this in reply: " The last infirmity of error that would fasten itself on society, to see it hobble under a new burden of guilt, is 'free love.

All who are interested in the work of Christian Science will recollect the severe letter of denunciation written by Rev. A.

Freedom of religious thought has developed a multitude of diverse interpretations of Scripture, cach vigorously supported by numbers of converts forming various sects, so that the sincere seeker after truth becomes bewildered by the many different and contrary influences brought to bear upon him. What shall he believe? Believe the teachings of Christ, and nothing that is not in accordance with them.

Physical Science is defined as classified knowledge; that is, knowledge gained from the five personal senses and arranged by the reason and intellect. It depends upon known laws of matter, as observed by the five personal senses.

The combined efforts at this hour of the materialistic portion of the pulpit and press, to retard by misrepresentation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving it new impetus and energy, awakening the vox populi —directing more critical observation of its uplifting influence upon the health, morals and spirituality of man. Their movements indicate fear and weakness, a physical and spiritual need that Christian Science should remove and the results become glorious.

A friend said to me this morning, "Our church, (Dr. Scudder's) are talking seriously of abolishing creeds.

The minister of a certain Boston suburban parish looked up with a broad smile from his copy of the Advertiser the other day. "What is funny, Yorick?" asked his wife.