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Though we please men and men please us, 

 if we keep pace, it will be rather through 

 our higher qualities of mind, character, and 

 heart, than by our lower nature, weaknesses, 

 and faults; but, Heaven knows, both men 

 and women will ever have a sufficient amount 

 of the latter. 



One word more. An often-quoted picture 

 is this: The husband, the wage-earner, from 

 morning until night busied with cares and 

 labors, which leave him little time for cul- 

 ture or the more refining pleasures of life, 

 while the wife and daughters are kept in 

 idleness at home, entertaining themselves 

 with gay or frivolous pastimes, expending the 

 income which was earned at such cost. 

 Would it not be better for custom to break 

 its bonds a little and look about it, and allow 

 those idle women occupation that would as- 

 sist the father and develop their own dor- 

 mant faculties? Would the sympathy in 

 that home not be of a deeper and more 

 enduring sort ? 



For women to be idle is no better than for 

 men, and this waste of life and time, which 

 so many are guilty of, at the cost of some 

 overworked man, is a condition of things 

 which cries to Heaven. 



Grace A. Luce. 



PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF 

 DISEASE. 



Editor Popular Science Monthly : 



Sir: In the short article on Individual 

 Communion Cups (Popular Science Monthly, 

 July, 1896, page 425) it seemed to me that 

 a good word has been spoken in season on a 

 subject where, in the opinion of many Chris- 

 tian people who have been blessed with a 

 scientific education, a pressing reform seems 

 necessary. 



The subject is one which attracted my 

 attention some time ago in a serious way, 

 and a knowledge of the danger incurred by 

 communicants on several occasions made me 

 realize the urgent necessity of a change in 

 the custom prevailing in Protestant churches. 

 In one of the instances referred to the offi- 

 ciating clergyman was known to be suffer- 

 ing from cancer of the mouth in an advanced 

 stage ; yet this circumstance did not deter 

 him from partaking of the sacramental wine 

 before passing the cup to the other commu- 

 nicants present. 



In the Presbyterian and allied churches 

 where the elements are received by the con- 

 gregation while seated in the pews, the plan 

 adopted by the Rev. Dr. Charles Herr ap- 

 pears to me admirable; but in the Episco- 

 pal Church, where the communicants advance 

 to the altar, the best arrangement would be 

 that each member should bring with him a 

 flattened cup of silver or aluminum, with 

 an appropriate design or inscription upon it, 

 which could be fitted into a leather cover 

 and carried in the pocket or attached to the 

 case containing the prayer book, etc. 



As the Founder of Christianity declared 

 that his mission in this world was " not to 

 destroy men's lives, but to save them," and 

 as that is the noble aim toward which sci- 

 ence also is working, I can but hope that 

 the medical men who are interested in the 

 welfare of the congregations to which they 

 personally belong will feel it their duty to 

 draw the attention of pastors and people 

 very earnestly to this much-needed reform, 

 and that the pastors themselves will lose no 

 time in following the excellent example of 

 the Rev. Dr. Charles Herr, of the First Pres- 

 byterian Church, Jersey City. 



I am, with regard, faithfully yours, 



Julia F. Carvill Lewis. 

 Hotel Lang, Heidelberg, July 10, 1896. 



%tlitox f s gatrtje. 





A BISHOP ON PROFESSOR HUXLEY. 



IN many minds it is a settled con- 

 viction that the attitude of the 

 Christian clergy toward science must 

 necessarily be one of antagonism. 

 There has been much, of course, in 

 the history of the past to give coun- 

 tenance to such a view, and possibly 

 the recent publication of President 

 Andrew D. White's able and inter- 

 esting volumes on The "Warfare of 

 Science with Theology may just now 



be doing something to strengthen 

 and extend the impression. Presi- 

 dent White, however, it should be 

 remembered, has not failed to make 

 it clear that, in the general progress 

 of intelligence, the clergy are more 

 and more being led to take up a 

 reasonable position in regard to the 

 teachings of science ; so that, on the 

 whole, the antagonism of which he 

 writes may be looked upon almost 

 as a thing of the past. 



