An Incident of Christian Science."In the course of our journeyings, we came to a friend's house whose daughter was a great sufferer from a complication of ills. A lady friend of theirs, once intimate in the family, had been a "Scientist" healer, and was edging her way to "give treatment " to the sick one. With the word of God in our hand, we exposed her antichristian doctrine before the whole household. The father, who was a sincere Christian, then turned to the "healer" and said, "Madam, will you kindly, upon returning home, read the second epistle of John, and find there the reason why I desire this to be your last visit at my house ?"

Soon after this the suffering daughter went to a distant place where it was hoped her health would be restored. The family here, where she took up her abode, were "Christian Scientists," and in their house frequent meetings were held by that people.

The change of climate, instead of restoring health to the young lady, brought on much worse symptoms, and the end hastily came. Two or three days before the end, she wrote to her father. She confessed to him that she had resented his dismissal of the "healer"; that she thought he lacked consideration for her, as she had hoped by that means to regain health and comfort.

But now she thanked him for his faithfulness; for since coming where she was, she had from her bed in the adjoining room been a listener to their teaching; and, " My dear father," she said, "though near my end, which may take place before this letter reaches you (as it did), were I certain that these people could heal me, I would not accept it at their hands. I have heard their blasphemies concerning our Lord Jesus Christ; and if such people have power to heal, their power is not from God. Far better it is to die and go to be with the Lord, than deny Him and be well here."

The Scientists and Higher Critics.

In a letter of the Hon. S. H. Blake to the Chancellor of Victoria College, Toronto, in which he exposes the clandestine way of Higher Criticism in that institution of learning, the following extract occurs:

"Which of the scientists are we to follow ?And the scientists of which period ?It is said that a scientific library of seven years ago is only fit to be relegated to the dust heap, because of the changes in the views of the scientists of to-day, as compared with the earlier period. Is it the volumes of seven, fourteen, or forty-nine years ago by which we are to mold and alter our Bible ?A scientist leaving a meeting of wise men, in passing home picks up a shell which upsets the conclusion at which they had just arrived, and so proclaims to the public. Another scientist who rejected the deluge, wandering on a mountain, enters a cave in which the various bones collected convince him of the truth of that which he had absolutely denied. You will remember the time that contemptuous laughter was poured out upon those who believed that Moses wrote certain books of the Bible, because, as they affirmed, writing at that period was unknown. You will remember the ridicule that was passed upon those who believed the statements made in the second and third verses of the first chapter of Genesis. Impossible, said they, and we pledge our scientific reputation to the fact that there could not have been light until the creation of the sun. The more learned man of to-day says that the second verse of the first chapter of Genesis, which has stood for over three thousand years, teaches all men, learned or unlearned, that motion gives light, and that therefore the supposed wisdom of the early scientist was but "the oppositions of science falsely so called "-foreseen by the apostle over eighteen hundred years ago. It is a cruel thing to fill the minds of our students with these vagaries and crudities which century after century disappear and are relegated to the paradise of fools, leaving the word of God the same impregnable Rock that the humble, unsophisticated man, not stifled with the wisdom of the world, will ever find it to be.

No, my dear Chancellor, I abhor the thought that our Toronto University should aid in the work of shaking men's confidence in the Bible as being the word of the living God, and so take from them that splendid and all-powerful weapon absolutely needed in fighting aright the battle of life."