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From the contemplation of its manifestations as a practice of the art of healing, what results do we see awaiting us, if the ignorance of Christian Scientists should obtain the ascendency? In the first place, it will be well to understand how well qualified the professors of this cult are for practice in the cure of disease. This will give us an idea: In the New York Herald not long ago, an account was given by a woman who had attended a series of lectures delivered by one of the well known exponents of this "Science" in a neighboring city. The series consisted of eight discourses, and was attended by some forty students, each of whom received a diploma, after having paid one hundred dollars. This diploma entitled them to practice in the cure of all disease. The writer of the article I here refer to said, that at the end of the eight lessons she knew no more than she did at the beginning; for no