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These mighty words, rolling down the ages, and gathering weight in human consciousness from the accumulative agreement of man's highest ideal of justice and Divine impartiality, have manifested themselves in the phenomena of thrones of kings o'erturned, empires dissolved, personal aggrandizement and despotism laid low, and young Republics springing up in all continents of the known world. Governments have changed their form and force under the mellowing influence of the Christ-spirit, and are still changing, still struggling to demonstrate the ideal of the prayer,—"thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven," first voiced beside the Galilean Sea, nineteen hundred years ago, and since repeated by millions of fervent, faithful lips.

A SPIRITUAL PRISM Have you ever held a crystal prism in the sunlight, and watched the sunbeams glint through it in myriad hues and shadows? One brilliant gleam chases another, until gathered into a harmony of beautiful colors and attractive rays of atmospheric light. Then turn the crystal about, and as you change its position, brighter, more beautiful rays flash out from it, reminding one of gleams of sunshine across a summer sea.

In looking over the back volumes of our Journal, one is reminded of commencement and anniversary orations and essays delivered by "callow youths" and "sweet girl graduates," who descant learnedly upon themes that are puzzling the brains of many of their white haired hearers. A few years later in life, if called upon for an article for publication or to be read to some literary society, how different would be the subject selected.

Not long ago I was present in the studio of a painter, and became very much interested in the subject; use, and mission of backgrounds. The painter showed me, among other pictures, some partially executed ones upon which he was at work.

" If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. " These are the words of John in his first Epistle, verified by his Master, Jesus Christ.

The following letter is the result of the work of Miss Annie Dodge, in England. — Editor.

A letter from a classmate in Science lies open before me. It expresses a thought that seems to be held by quite a number of Scientists in a more or less pronounced form.

A discourse preached on a Christmas occasion by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Reading so many letters in the Journal from the little brother and sister Scientists, it made me feel as though I would like to write one too. Last fall I had a very severe belief of sickness, one that would have left me a cripple for life, if the doctors had cared for me; but Christian Science healed me completely.

Truth perfects praise "out of the mouth of babes" in varied and wondrous ways. Our little one, aged four and a half years, corrects, with a child's quick perception of Science, every unscientific seeming in us, and teaches us many valuable lessons in Truth.