PROF. FREDRICK STARR, of the University of Chicago, said to be one of the foremost of American anthropologists, holds, according to the Springfield Republican, that “the sway of superstition is at the present time actually gaining ground.” Among the superstitious he numbers the faith-curists, who “profess to cure disease by other than natural methods; Christian Scientists, who claim a million adherents; the Koreshites, followers of Dr. Teed, a large and widespread society made up of ordinary people, which has for its cardinal doctrine the proposition that we are living inside the earth instead of on its surface,” and those of astrological belief, constantly growing in number. “On the shores of Lake Michigan there is said to be a college devoted especially to the ancient mystic arts. There are shrines where relics of the saints are worshiped as objects of supernatural power,” says professor Starr, and the new beliefs are beyond counting. And Mr. William A. Linn, author of a recent work, “The Story of the Mormons,” believes that superstition is as vital as ever. He says: “It is no more surprising that the Mormons succeeded in establishing their church in the United States than it would have been if they had been equally successful in South America; no more surprising that their success should have been more in the nineteenth century than it would have been to record it in the twelfth.” The Springfield Republican thinks this somewhat doubtful; thinks if such a movement had started in the twelfth century it would have grown unchecked to far greater proportions. But what shall be said of Roman Catholicism, with its saint worship and adoration of relics? What shall be said of the “mascot” which so many pugilists, base-ball, foot-ball and other players, men of business, women of society, etc., put their trust in? Yes, the age is superstitious; and the only thing which saves from superstition is faith in God, the living Gospel of Jesus Christ. And yet a “science falsely so called” will call this superstition, and fall into the worst of all superstitions, the worship of self and humanity.