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Nearly nineteen centuries have passed since amidst the flowery plains and hills of Palestine, was heard the angelic chorus, "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will to men," announcing the coming, and heralding the birth of a Teacher of immortal Truth; one who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. " Spoken in one language and translated into others, coming down through the dark ages, through times of persecution when the Massacre of hundreds of Christians in one day was deemed holy work; through the mediæval times when Church and State were united, and thereby became a foe more destructive than the previous persecutions; then through the period of the Reformation, a time in which a large part of the world was held in the darkness of Romish idolatry and superstition,—yet after all these years, and through all these seeming barriers, we find these words of the Master still shining resplendent on the inspired page, their spiritual lustre intact to the spiritually illumined.

The following extracts from "D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation" may not be uninteresting to Scientists. Speaking of Luther while yet a monk in the cloister, our historian says:— He has received salvation immediately from God himself; and from that moment Roman Catholicism is virtually destroyed in him.

Every child in any way familiar with the Old Testament history can give a graphic description of the seemingly supernatural crossing of the Red Sea by the children of Israel in their journeying out from the bondage of Egypt toward the promised land, even though their sense of this historic record be strangely confounded with the fairy tales which so delight the heart of the imaginative child. The thought is still present, even while perhaps undefined, that in some unaccountable way this experience of the Children of Israel is fact, while the other is fable.

The following is a reply to a second letter received by me from a member of the M. E.

"God is (a) Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. "— John iv.

I wish to say to students and contributors, do not quote profusely from Science and Health, but when you do, be careful to use the quotation marks and cite the page. In most of the articles which come to us there is such a running together of the writer's language and that of Mrs.

When people of the United States celebrate the 500th Columbian anniversary there will be so many of them that no longer will it be said that "Uncle Sam is rich enough To "give us all a farm. " Consequently all soil worth tilling will receive the best possible attention, with the result that we will be the best fed nation in the world.

Mr. W.

Says M. C.

Amherst , June 18. —The baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of the Mass.