TO GREAfr BRITAIN Mary Baker Eddy in Boston Herald, May 15, 1898, and in Christian Science Sentinel, Feb. 17, 1917: Hail, brother! Fling thy banner To the billows and the breeze; We proffer thee warm welcome With our hand, though not our knees. Lord of the main jyid manor! Thy palm, in ancient day, Didst rock the country's cradle That wakes thy laureate's lay. The hoar fight is forgotten; Our eagle, like the dove, Returns to bless a bridal Betokened from above. List, brother! Angels whisper To Judah's sceptered race, "Thou of the self 9ame spirit. Allied to nation's grace, "Wouldst cheer the hosts of heaven; For Anglo-Israel, lo! Is marching under orders; ■ His hand averts the blow." Brave Britain, blest America! Unite your battle plan; Vctorious, all who live it, — The love for God and man. HEALING BY PRAYER NOT A CRIMINAL ACT, . SAYS JUDGE BARTLETT Legislature Has No Power to Make It a Crime to Thus Treat Disease. . [Editorial From the Christian Science Sen tinel.] Bench and Bur , a monthly magazine for lawyers, published in New York City, commenting editorially on the Cole, case recently decided by the New Court of Appeals, calls special at tention to the concurring opinion of Chief Judge Bartlett. in which he said: "I concur in Judge Chase's construction of the statute. But I would go farther. I deny the power of the legislature to make it a crime to treat disease by prayer." We quote from this most in teresting comment as follows: This suggestion raises perhaps the most interesting feature of the case. Can the attempted cure of disease by prayer be constitutionally inhibited? That the treat ment of disease so closely concerns the public health as to come within the police power of the state i»T of course, too plain for serious argument. The licensing of physicians and surgeons is manifestly a valid police measure. Both operate di rectly upon the body. The one adminis ters drugs; the wields the knife. If the doctor knows nothing of the effect of his medicines upon the human body, or surgeon has no knowledge of anat omy, the results are likely to be disas trous. Knowledge on these points is es sential, and the state has a right to re quire it. The case of the Christian Scientist is radically different. He does not operate upon the body at all. He even denies its existence. His theory is, that disease orig inates in the mind, and can be cured only by treatment of the mind; and that even the mental "Concepts resulting in what is called disease are false and unreal, and •can be dispelled by the apprehension of truth. A treatment based upon such the ories'cannot result in malpractice upon thf> body; and to a great extent the rea sons which necessitate the licensing of the ordinary medical practitioner disappear. There remains, however, the argument from neglect—that the patient may resort to the Christian Science practitioner, with out benefit, whereas his case, if taken in time, might have been cured by more fa miliar methods. But how could the pa tient be forced to resort to the established school of medicine? Again the distinction in method is of vital importance. A be liever In the use of drugs might resort to SO no unlicensed quack or harmful nos trum and receive serious injury. In his case ther6 might have been protection in a law forbidding the quack to practice, or preventing the sale of the nostrum. Chris tian Science, however, holds out no hope to such a person. His beiief that the seat of the disease is in the body, and beyond the control of the mind, would prevent his resorting to it. On the other hand, if the patient did believe in the healing power of mind, and disbelieved in material meth ods, it is difficult to see how the legisla ture would protect him by forbidding the Christian Scientist to practice. He could not then resort to such a practitioner, , but neither would he apply to the estab lished school of medicine. The question raised by Chief Judge Bartlett seems to us an interesting one. which iS worthy of serious consideration. It will not arise in this state, however, unless the legislature amends the public health law fn the particular which came under consideration in the Cole case. Whether or not the amendment might constitutionally be made, the only justifi cation for such legislation is the protec tion of the public health. If that is not threatened by Christian Science practice, such practice ought not to be forbidden. Thd legislatures of ten other states, as the opinion in the Cole case shows, have not 'believed in the existence of any such'dan ger. for the Christian Science church is expressly excepted from the scope of their medical practice acts. This is true in Maine. New Hampshire. Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Carolina, North and South Danota, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Christian Scientists are indebted to Bench and Bar for so clearly stating the theory upon which laws have been and are considered necessary for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery, and why the practice of Christian Science is not under the same necessity. Notwithstanding the scores of attempts to define by statute the practice of medicine in such a way as to include Christian Science, it is becoming more and more evident to the courts and to the thinking people of the United States that these two systems are in no wise related, and in fact that they have nothing whatever in common except that both are depended upon to heal the sick. But even on this common ground the difference of method is so groat that it only tends to emphasize that Christian Science i* n )t the practice of medicine. One system is solidly material and phy sical. both in its viewpoint and methods as well as in the agencies which it em ploys. The ot.ier is -purely spiritual in f.orft principle and practice. To one the healing of sick bodies is Alpha and Omega—"the beginning and the end." To the other the healing of sickness is, as Mrs. Eddy writes on page 2 of Auuuueuuu jjiTine science," "the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin; and this task sometimes, may be hard er than the cure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they do not love to be sick.'' Even in the use of mental suggestion, to which the medical profession has given some study and for which it has made broad claims, the mind which is exploited is simply the human or mor tal mind, and the effect sought to be produced is hypnotic or mesmeric. This is frankly admitted by those who use this method. On the oth er hand the Mind invoked by the Christian Scientist is that divine Mind which Paul declares was in Christ Jesus. This divine Mind is God Himself, the creator of man and the universe. It is that Mind of which Mrs. Eddy writes, "The perfect Mind sends forth perfection, for God Ls Mind" (Science and Health, page 239). It is divine Principle, the source of all true being. It is the Father to whom Christ Jesus prayed, "Not my will, but thine, be done." Close reasoning proves, in the light of the decision of the highest court of the state of New York, that the law under which Mr. Cole was tried does not purport to confine the healing art to the mere administration of drugs or the practice of surgery. On the con trary, the very words of the statute and the decision which interpreted this statute clearly recognize that healing may be brought about by means which are the direct opposite of these meth ods—means which are distinctly a part of the religion of citizens of the state, and that these means are lawful. It was the intention of the legis lature so to construct the statute as to make impossible the perversion of its m6aning Which was attempted in the Cole case, and the court in decid ing this case as it did simply inter preted the will of the legislature in this" regard. • POOR MAN'S COLLEGE THE NEWSPAPER. \ Appreciation of a Church Daily. The value of newspapers and maga zines in spreading religious beliefs is(|i fact that is thoroughly recognized by the Christian Science church, and in practically every public library you will find copies of the otiicial publications of this church. * * * In passing it might be remarked that the Christian Science church publishes j one of the best dailies of the country— I namely, The Christian Science Monitor. ! Ask any newspaper man to name the j five leading papers of the colmtry, and he will be sure to include the Monitor. It j is not devoted to religious propaganda. There is one article in each issue—and j only one —dealing with the Christian Science faith. The other columns are filled with news matter, well written and edited. The Monitor prints much news that the other papers do not have space for, and when there is any up lift movement going on, no matter what i the denomination, plenty of space is j given to the cause. Where other pa- j pers print excerpts of speeches, the ; Monitor prints them complete. Scan- I dal, murders, divorce —all such stuff is i conspicuous by its absence. There is j one complete page of editorials, deal- j ing with present day topics in a schol arly, thoughtful and practical way. j The newspaper has been called the ; poor man's college. If this be true The Christian Science Monitor is the uni- | versity, where a postgraduate course i can be pursued. The Christian Science ideal of looking on the bright side is lived up to in the columns of the Mon itor. The circulation is not limited to mem- j hers of the Christian Science faith. Thousands who hold tenets exactly j opposed to Mrs. Eddy read the Moni- j tor because of its clear presentation of public problems and the great amount of correct information to be found in its columns. At Harvard university a quotation from the Monitor is accepted as true without further confirmation. The writer of this column, although not a Christian Scientist, reads the Monitor daily and is glad to acknowl edge that he is always broadened and informed by doing so. As far as I know, there is no other sect that pub lishes a daily paper.—Church Editor Confessions in McKeesport (Pa.) Daily News. A certain definition of war, attributed to William Teeumseli Sherman, whose authority on the subject has never been doubted, is now quoted the world over, and with increasing emphasis. Yet it was 'delivered in an offhand fashion, and was never intended by the General to be taken as a thoroughly matured conclusion. Another definition of war, with which, however, he would doubt less- have preferred his name to be identified, was, "War's legitimate ob ject is"a more perfect peace," words, by the way, that may be found inscribed upon his monument at Washington.— The Christian Science Monitor. While there is full appreciation of the necessity of co-operation in large undertakings, the senators who accuse President Wilson of not consulting with Congress on every detail in the war plans may find solace in the story told about Abraham Lincoln. It is related of the Liberator that, after writing the Emancipation Proclamation, he called the Cabinet together, and said: "I have not called y v ->%. gentlemen, to ask your advice. I have called you to tell you what I have done."—The Christian Sci ence Monitor. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING [From The Christian Science Monitor.) The only way to learn how Christian Science heals the sick and reforms the sinner is to possess that understanding which will enable one to grasp the spir itual meaning of the Master's life and teachings, and see how these are meta physically explained by Mrs. Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Sci ence and Health, with Key to the Scriptures." To those not so enlighten ed, the first approach to Christian Sci ence is sometimes attended with doubt and fear. Question after question arises, and gives occasion for much concern. How is it possible to cure a disease without a material remedy of some kind? Have not men always used ma terial remedies, and is it possible that the world can be wrong after thou sands of years of systems which have resort to matter? He who is thus perplexed is not so much concerned about moral regenera tion, for apart from the consideration that he primarily wants to be physi cally healed, he Is willing to admit that if Christian Science is a religion based upon the Bible, then there is no reason why it should not be quite as successful in saving men from their sins as any other church that expounds the Gospel of Jesus. But with regard to healing disease, he is inclined to ask: Is it credible that the world has been all these centuries groping in the dark, be lieving that it was light; stumbling "at noonday as in the night," to quote one of the prophets; misled and misleading, while all the time the truth lay before it in the example of the Wayshower of humanity? The reply is that it is creditable and is provable. He who comes to know what Christian Science is, and the mighty work it is doing for humanity, sees that instead of lightly setting aside or misinterpreting the healing works of Jesus and his immediate fol lowers, Christian Science perpetuates those works and is therefore doing what Christianity concedes is impera tive —that is, being obedient to Christ's commands. Now, of course, if one is going. to protest that tlie phenomena of physical healing recorded in the New Testament were intended only for a limited time, and formed a prelude, and a prelude only, to the higher pur pose of preparing men for heaven, one has either very little regard for what the Master said, or misunderstands his plainest utterances. Much of what he said being in figurative or metaphysic al language, is not always easily grasp ed; but is there anything abstruse or beyond the simplest mind to apprehend In his promise that if you believe in him you may become capable of doing the works that he did? Christian Sci ence accepts this promise fully, and in putting it into practice is helping to redeem men from physical and mental ills. It thus sustains what should be evident to all who study the life of Christ Jesus—that no utterance of his can be construed into a direct or indi rect declaration that as time went on the power to heal by spiritual law— that is to say, by relying wholly upon God—should cease. Now to heal by spiritual law is to learn that the basis upon which ma teria medica works, and which scholas tic theologians accept—that is, the be lief in the reality of matter—is merely the basic belief of the carnal or mortal mind. To admit the reality of matter is to accept as legitimate all discordant conditions. That is one of the earliest facts that came to Mrs. Eddy in her search for the law of healing. Work ing logically from the standpoint of God as infinite good, you can reach no other conclusion. It takes some time, of course, for the inquirer to learn the metaphysical distinction drawn by Christian Science petween the real and the unreal. But his task will be sim i plified if he remembers that all that is real is the creation of God. as the one Mind, the one Spirit. The real, there fore, can only include that which is perfect, pure, holy and good. That which is unreal consists of those flesh ly lusts which ultimate in sin, sickness and death. now, it may be asked, does this jus tify Christian Science setting itself up to oppose what has been the method of the religious and medical world for centuries? Christian Science does not oppose; it declares the truth, and it knows that the application of the truth will destroy all the error there is in mortal belief. Christian Science is metaphysical, not physical, in nature and in operation. It affirms that the greatest metaphysician that the world knows was Christ Jesus; and it wants the world to follow him, not in part, but in everything. It refuses to be lieve that God healed the sick nineteen centuries ago and will not heal today. But this must be understood aright. If one is making a reality of sickness one must learn that it is unreal, and this can be done only as we learn the truth and call upon truth to heal. The same rule applies in precisely the same way to sin or any other mental condi tion that produces poverty, misery and woe. Christian Science declares that Mind is all. Therefore while it does not ignore matter or evil, it recognizes them only as phenomena that the knowledge of Truth has shown to be nothing but dreams of mortal sense. Naturally what this means is that these statements of Truth run counter to preconceived opinions. It is a great step in learning Christian Science when one sees that opinions are of lit tle or no value. No man was ever healed or helped by opinions or human hypotheses. What men need is to know God as He was revealed by Christ Je sus. That is the spiritual knowledge which corrects erroneous thought, pu rifies the motives. uplifts the desires, and makes Trufh real to us. Mrs. Eddy says on page 4G2 of Science and Health; "Whoever would demnostrate the healing of Christian Science must abide strictly by its rules, beed every statement, and advance from the rudi ments laid down. There is nothing dif ficult nor toilsome in this task, when the way is pointed out; but self denial, sincerity, Christianity, and persistence | alone win the prize, as they usually do in every department of life.'* A THOUGHT WORLD. i Excerpt From Lecture on Christian Science by Clarence W. Chadwick, C. S. 8., Member of Christian Science Board of Lectureship. In the evolution of human thinking it is becoming more and more evident that we live in a thought world. What ever confronts us must be mental pro curement, else there could be no mental or conscious recognition of it What does the eye behold but a mental image pictured on the retina? We see thoughts because we think them. Things are thoughts and thoughts are things. Di vest human existence of all thought ; and there would be nothing left to see, hear, touch, taste or smell. Without thought there would be nothing to think or to talk about Mrs. Eddy's Discovery. It was in the year ISG6 that Mrs. Eddy made the all-important discovery that "all causatiun was Mind, and every effect a mental phenomenon" ("Retro : spection and Introspection," page 24). By Mind she means not the carnal or mortal mind, which "is enmity against God," but one infinite supreme creative, governing intelligence of the universe, eternal and unchangeable. Health and Disease. Christian Scientists are a great deal j more interested in the subject of health than in disease. They have found* out that the right idea of health when in telligently presented to humanity is*far j more contagious than the thought of disease. They do not believe in getting sick and then having to become pro ficient in a knowledge of disease before learning how to be well. They have learned that health is the normal con dition of man in Christian Science, and that disease is a mistake of the human mind, to be corrected by a right under standing of health as an attribute of | God. Jesus did not advise us to acquire a knowledge of disease in order to heal disease. He did not counsel his follow ers to study medical works in order to cope intelligently with the ills of the flesh. He did not say to study what the world says about sin in order to avoid its experience. What did he say? This, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness," which is equivalent to saying, "Seek ye first the spiritual understanding of God and His right thoughts or ideas." Christian Science has come to open the door of conscious ness to receive this understanding of God and to apply it to the correction of every human mistake.—[From the Alta Herald, Canada.] INFORMING AND AROUSING THE NATION. [An Editorial From The Christian Science Monitor.] Do the great mass of the people of the United States understand what the war is for? There are doubts on the subject. It is no reflection upon the 1 general intelligence of the country to say that a large proportion of its in habitants are not altogether clear as to the issues involved. They know that the rights of American citizens have been violated; they know that the persons and property of American citizens have been attacked; they know that unspeakable outrages upon hu manity have been committed by and in the name of the Central Empires of Eu rope; thej- know, finally, that the honor and the flag of their country have been assailed and insulted, and, long before the decisive step was taken, they were all but unanimous in demanding that the Government at Washington should go to the extreme in defending the Re public, and everything for which It stands, against such aggression. They realize that war is necessary, and that German autocracy and German milita rism made it inevitable. But do they really comprehend, in a large sense, what the United States will soon be fighting for, shoulder to shoulder with (.he Entente nations and their Allies? Do they realize what are the purposes, the aims, the ends, of the gigantic armed movement now rapidly taking form in their own country, and begin ning to exhibit tangible results across : the Atlantic? President Wilson, in his speech rec ommending to Congress that a state of war be decla r ed between the United States and Germany, was careful to make it plain that by Germany was meant, not the German people, but the Imperial German Government; and Con gress was equally careful to reiterate and emphasize this fact. The United States is not at |var against any peo ple, against any nation; it is not at war for vengeance, or for conquest; it is not at war for destruction's sake; it is at war against a ruinous philosophy, against international lawlessness, against a politico-military system that menaces the peace and liberty of the world. It is a question how far and , how well this is understood by the people of the United States. It is of the utmost importance that they should understand It soon and thoroughly. ♦ ♦ * I THE YOUN6 MAN AND THE GREAT WAR FOR HUMAN LIBERTY Better to Fight for the Right Than to See Wrong Pacifi cally Triumphant. _______ [An Editorial From The Christian Science Monitor.] The pacifist whole-heartedly, the So cialist spasmodically, have done their best to hinder the prosecution of the Allies' war plans. * • • Now that the great body of the paci fists and the minority Socialists really believe that they are, by their attitude, consulting the best interests of human ity, there is no reason, as has been said, to doubt But it would really be ex tremely interesting to know in what way they imagine the .liberties of the race would be subserved, or the future peace of the world assured by the tri umph of the Middle Europe group. Perhaps if they had experienced, in their own persons, the gentle mercies of the Turk to the Armenian, the Bul gar to the Serb, the Austrian to the Roumanian, or the German to the Bel gian, they might be less academic in their views on the situation. Let us imagine, for the moment, that the powers of Europe rushed into the war with the uncontrolled passions of the cats of Kilkenny. Let us try to imagine that the great overseas domin ions are peopled with bellicose aristo crats and plutocratic pluralists, intent only 011 dominion and dividends. Even then there remained still the one just man, determined upon neutrality, the United States of America. For two and a half years the just man watched from across the Atlantic the hurly-burly of slaughter, from the banks of the Somine to Bagdad, and from the Baltic to the forests of Africa. Then one day the just man spoke. He explained just what he thought of the I murder of the Armenian* nation, just what he had observed of the sinister conspiracy planned by an autocracy running amuck through the world for its own personal ends, and he announc ed that in the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in the name of right and justice, he, too, was coming into the welter to insure liberty and progress from being blotted off the globe. And for this purpose he also called out his young men. When a nation goes to war it is right that its army should be raised by means of the selective draft, only there must be no question of the complete in tegrity of the drafters. *To permit the burden to fall on those families which are prompt to answer the call of duty, whilst those who hesitate or fail are permitted to escape, is both weak and unstatesmanlike. A free country makes its own decisions, and there is a great gulf fixed between what the world has termed the human cannon fodder of men arbitrarily driven into the ranks, and the self sacrifice made by a free na ' tion for righteousness' sake. Men who ! enjoy the liberties of a free country, and yet decline to make sacrifices for that enjoyment, are unworthy of the privileges of their citizenship. The pac ifist who can only see thq blood of war, and who holds all warfare up to repro bation, simply values human life higher than Principle and condemns the con duct of those forefathers who paid with their blood for the freedom he en joys. What would he have done, it may quite frankly be asked, in the hour of the Revolution? If his ideals are true ideals, then Paul Revere was a mere maker of mischief, the minute men were agents provocateurs, Israel Putnam was setting man against man at Bunker Hill, and as for George Washington, instead of being the Fa ther of his Country, he must have been the chief villain of the tragedy. There is, of course, absolutely no es cape from the argument. If it is wrong to fight today, it was wrong to fight then. And if it is unjustifiable for the United States to assist the Allies today it was ten times more unjusti fiable for France to assist the United States then. i Of course, if any one were to main tain this, he would be compelled to go further and to blame North and South alike for the Civil War. If the action of Mr. Wilson is reprehensible today, the action of Mr. Lincoln was equally reprehensible then. It was, in deed, Mr. Lincoln who devised the idea of the selective draft, and he devised it for precisely the same reason that Mr. Wilson has adopted it today, in order that liberty should not perish from off the globe. But if it is wrong in any circumstances to fight, then it was wrong for the English to resist the Armada, for the Dutch to resist the Inquisition, for the American col onists to resist King George, and for I the North to free the slaves by force. Of course, if the pacifists knew how to restrain might without force, their ar ; gument would be irrefragable. Of course, if the world knew how to main j tain its freedom not by ajrms but through a knowledge of Principle, pac ificism would be. not theoretically, but in practice, the strongest of all forces, but until it does it is better to fight for right, than to see wrong pacifically triumphant. War being, then, a necessity of man's ignorance and sensuality, it is best that war should be conducted on the most humane and most honorable conditions. Now the very foundations of such a warfare are contained in an equality jof sacrifice by the nation. That the poverty of one man should drive him into the army, and the influence of an other save him from it would constitute a flagrant breach of the democratic ; idea. Therefore the determination of I the President and of Congress that the whole country shall contribute equally to the draft in preference to any sys tem of voluntary recruiting, is intend ed to offer that privilege to the nation, in a great crisis of its existence, when, before the guns speak, the dedication is made:— Not with the rolling voices of the suns. Nor yet with sheen of sun on bayonet bright. Do we salute the world, this day of days. Strong to uphold the right SUPREMACY OF SPIRITUAL LAW [George Shaw Cook in The Christian Sci ence Journal.] On page 427 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Immortal Mind, gov erning all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-call ed. as well as in the spiritual." In Christian Science infinite Principle is acknowledged to be the only cause, creator, source, origin; without it "was not any thing made that was made." Its creation is coexistent and eternal with itself, and all that is real was "in the beginning with God," and will ever continue inseparable from its divine cause. The one cause or Principle be ing Mind, its effect or manifestation must be mental. The universe of di vine Mind, then, consists of an infini tude of perfect divine thoughts, or ideas. Mind Is Omniscient. Immortal Mind, being divine Princi ple, governs all through or by means of absolute law. All that exists as divine creation is eternally sustained and di rected by perfect Principle through di vine law; therefore all is governed in perfect harmony. Principle, Mind, is omniscient. It i? therefore conscious of all that exists as creation. It is not conceivable, however, that Mind, though omniscient, could know some thing outside of its own universe. It is not possible for divine Mind, or Spirit, to know anything about a ma terial or mortal universe supposedly ex isting outside of or apart from infinity. Absolutely speaking, there is no ma terial universe to be known. For this reason it is unthinkable that divine Principle should have instituted or set in motion material, mortal, or so-called natural laws. It is likewise unthink able that divine Principle, Spirit, Mind, could provide for the operation of its own law in a universe which from the divine point of view does not exist. Frees the Human Mind. What then does Christian Science mean when it> says that immortal Mind "must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm?" Does it not mean that while to human sense, or in belief, there is a material universe, including mortal man, there can be no hope of salvation from this false belief except through acknowledging the supremacy of immortal Mind? For example, ac knowledgment of the supremacy of Mind, or Spirit, dethrones in human consciousness the belief that matter is real. To acknowledge Truth as su preme frees the human mind from bondage to error. Acknowledgment of the supremacy of good renders the be lief in sin and evil powerless. To ac knowledge Life as supreme makes im possible the acknowledgment of any reality In the claims of disease and death. Thus spiritual law Is seen in human experience to be the law of re demption from all material beliefs or so-called laws of mortal mind, however these may be manifested. Supremacy of the Spirit. For those apparently dwelling in a physical realm to acknowledge the su premacy of Spirit, does not mean that Spirit or immortal Mind is operating through or cooperating with matter or with mortal laws. Neither does It mean that spiritual law Is sustaining or perpetuating the belief that matter is intelligent or substantial. It simply means that in proportion as one ac knowledges the supremacy of immortal Mind, here and now, and appeals to spiritual law as the only governing power, spiritual law comes into his pres ent human experience and begins to liberate him from the belief in mortali ty with its attendant limitations and fears. -And this spiritual law, acknowl edged as supreme, will ultimately free him completely from the delusion that he exists now, or ever did exist, apart from the one immortal Mind; for, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 03), speaking of the Christ, "Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the reality of the un real; to save them from this false be lief; that they might lay hold of eternal Life, th§ great reality that concerns man, and understand the final fact,— that God is omnipotent and omnipres ent." One after another the disguises and subterfuges under which liquor has been masquerading are being stripped off, and the worthlessness of alcoliol as a stimulant is again and again emphat icallj- recorded. The authority most lately heard from is Dr. J. P. Blake, of the Harvard Medical School, who, in a recent lecture, said: "Alcohol Is a good thing to let absolutely alone, and should never be used as a stimulant. It is worthless, inwardly and outwardly."— The Christian Science Monitor. Counting the New Liberty Loan. Have you really any definite idea of the enormity of the sum of .$2,000,000,- 000? If you haven't, here is a bit of calculation offered by an exchange, which may, perhaps, help you. Suppose you started counting at the rate of $2 each second, and worked steadily ten hours each day, and 363 days each year, it would take seventy-six years and thirty-seven days to count the amount of the new liberty loan.—The Christian Science Monitor.
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