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one whimsically defined courage as "having done the thing before," by this meaning that a man who had been in one fight would have less trepidation in entering the next, and so by a process of experience in contest come to be intrepid.
The action of the Illinois State Medical Society in adopting a program for securing prohibitive legislation against the practice of Christian Science, as reported in the Intelligencer of recent date, implies that opposition to certain provisions of House bill 582 is in some way reprehensible; that such opposition was confined to Christian Scientists; and further, that the bill merely provides for reporting incipient ophthalmia neonatorum in infants.
If the vitalizing Principle of Jesus' teachings had not been lost to human consciousness in the third century, the "materialism and commercialism" to which the Rev.
Recently there appeared an article under the heading, "Trains the Voice by Mental Suggestion," in which Christian Science is linked with mental science and mental suggestion.
In a recent issue you class Christian Science as one of those "apostles of demagogism" which, when the chief secretary has selected certain places in the city of Sydney for open-air speaking, "can pour out the vial of their wrath and knowledge unimpeded by the heavy hand of the law.