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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

HOW often with wistful thought and yearning desire have these words been read, in some communication to the Journal, and with wonderment as to how it is possible for anyone— especially with such apparent ease as indicated in these reports — to realize Harmony in the midst of seeming discord! Thinking it not unlikely that there may be many who need a "reason for the hope that is in them," who seem unable, however willing and desirous they may be, to attain such a blessed condition as the realization of Harmony, these thoughts are offered to our common medium, the Journal; together with the hope that they may carry to others the blessed light which shone through them in a waking moment of the night, and grew clearer as day advanced. One who has imbibed even the letter of Christian Science, has reached the point of assent, if not the clear understanding, that all is Mind.

The loftiest test of friendship —understood as companionship —is the power to do without it. And in this world of external confusions and separations, there is often such need.

THEN took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.