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 that be entitled to the name of Christian which controverts these visible aids, ordained and established in the holiest solemnity by the Master himself? The attempt to filch the term Christian in order to cover beliefs so foreign to the whole Christian spirit is nothing more than fraudulent and shameless.

But the gravest error and the most un-Christian peculiarity of Christian Science reside in the fact that they place the center of the universe in the soul of each individual, thus making an innumerable number of centers, which is impossible, and fostering a sort of serene contentment of selfishness, which is everywhere in antagonism with the progress of the race. In the prefatory quotations to Mrs. Eddy's book, the most important excerpt reads: "I, I, I—I itself, I—the inside and outside, the what and the why, the when and the where, the low and the high—all I, I, I—I itself, I."

Instead of all things meeting in and emanating from God, and instead of man as one of the many instruments of God's purposes, subject to His will, and created for His glory, we find the soul of man containing all realities and all pos-