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Pain is a mechanism of perfection : it warns the

sufferer, it teaches Enrgeon, it preserves life. Dr. MacKenna Writes well of it in the pleasant " Affirmations " series edited by Dr. Percy Dearmer, and published by Messrs. Benn at ls.

each. Mr. Poynter writes of Christian Catholicism, pleading for the " beatific vision," not for the rigid and visible unity of any formulary. Mr. Hunter has sensible views on Keeping Sunday, and Dr. Mansbridge on The Educated Life.