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"In the beginning;" when the particles of nebulous matter without form and void, were moulded into earth, when the spirit of good drew aside the curtains of long night, calling light, life, and beauty into being with the trees and flowers, the grasses and herbs, and giving life to all animated creation, He said, "Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness. " "So God created man in His own image.

"Still behind the steps I hear Of my life-companion Fear," writes even the poet. Fear, it is the Atlas that bears the world upon its shoulders.

In a private letter to the President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, Rev. A, J.

"The paramount issue of the present campaign," we are told, "is moral rather than political," and "the whole question hinges on the moral character of the presidential candidate. " If these words are true and the coming election is to be decided in accordance with them, how much encouragement is given us to go on, hoping all things, enduring all things! If the great clan of politicians are forced to admit that a man cannot be nominated and elected to office on account of public services or ability, unless his private character supports his candidacy, a great step has been gained.

It has seemed, on reading over this page of last month's Journal, that it was a singular omission on our part to leave out in our prospectus and notes, the mention of the remarkable growth of the Journal of Christian Science under the editorship of its founder Mrs. Eddy, who started the paper at the request of her students, single handed and alone, to lead its untried steps upon Puritan, conservative soil, alongside haughty contemporaries,—to double, treble, quadruple its subscribers and exchanges in a single year.

If anybody thinks that the days of martyrdom for opinions are passed, let him step out from the conservative ranks wherein he marches, and join a radical wing of the army, or enter a new service altogether. The man who does it will soon find himself a martyr, no matter how conscientious his motives.

Distrust in our ability to surmount obstacles and overcome them prevents us from attaining the height of success, from being proficient at our trades, our professions, and even healing the sick, or reforming the sinner, and encouraging each other heavenward. How much time we waste in doubt and fears that were better used in trying our best to work out the problems before us, whether it be in our household duties, in the work-shop, or in our professions! The admission "I can't," persisted in, is but pronouncing the sentence upon ourselves that holds us from success.

"M. Victor St.

Students of Christian Science acting in the capacity of healers of disease, are asked many and various questions by the uninformed as to their faith and methods. We have invited a few students to note some of these questions, and answers as given by themselves.

In the last number of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Dr. Albert Day publishes an article on medical delusion.