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THE SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK IN A WEARY LAND

HAVING spent the evening in talking Christian Science, after retiring, the following vision appeared to me, clear and distinct. I have since thought of it many times, only to find it brighter and clearer.

FAITH AND WORKS

As a child I was feeble, could never run and play like other children, and life was a burden to me. I was under the care of my father who had been a druggist, and who was a so-called "patent-medicine man.

Mortal "history repeats itself" in motive, action and result, whatever the seeming aim. The light of Christian Science renders vivid the following picture of mortal mind's righteousness:—"I think the form of failure to which it is most liable is this, that being generous-hearted, and wholly intending always to do right, it does not attend to the external laws of right, but thinks it must necessarily do right because it means to do so, and therefore does wrong without finding it out; and then when the consequences of its wrong come upon it, or upon others connected with it, it cannot conceive that the wrong is in anywise of its causing or of its doing, but flies into wrath.

JUSTICE

THIS morning there is recalled a mental picture, in which the writer seemed seated on the principal corner of the main street in the home of boyhood's days; near the old, familiar "town pump. " A document was handed me by an old friend whom I have always held in high esteem.

MANGER AND CROSS

MUCH is said of the meek and mighty Nazarene as our High Priest. Mortal mind likes to be hand-and-glove with a high dignitary after he is proven such; without meeting, on its own part, the requirements necessary to precede the honorable association.

HUMAN LIMITATIONS

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. "Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years I am so weary of toil and of tears, Toll without recompense, tears all in vain,— Take them, and give me my childhood again.

I do not say that we shall ever repeat the miracles of the New Testament. Nevertheless, I cannot forget Christ's solemn declaration: "Greater works than these shall he do" (who believes in me), "because I go to my Father.

LETTING OUR LIGHT SHINE

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. — Matthew, v.

QUERY

A Scientist tells me that Jesus was in every way unlike us except that he was in human form; that we must not think of him as ever having the same to overcome that we have; that he was full grown mentally, morally and spiritually while yet a child in stature, like other children born of woman, and so was never taught, and never obeyed a human mother, or bore any of the discipline so necessary for us to bear to become Christian Scientists, his true followers. This has troubled me for some time.

EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE

ONE morning, a few weeks ago, I awoke repeating the above significant words— significant, indeed, to all Christian Scientists. I had even forgotten the location of the material structure bearing the name, but it seemed so typical of our Cause, that I felt it had come to me for some good purpose.