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MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD says that "the best way to bring up a boy, is to begin one hundred years, at least, before his advent.

PAUL tells us in Hebrews xi. 10 : "For he looketh for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

ABOUT a year ago I heard a woman preach a sermon on Idolatry, in a town about fifty miles from here. The ideas expressed seemed to me the most reasonable of any I had ever heard on that subject, and I concluded right away to go some time during the summer and hear her again; but, being very busy with the affairs of the material world, I neglected it.

"And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. "— Luke xiii, 29.

THIS may seem a small word to talk about, yet it appears to me, there is no word in the human language that means more to the Christian Scientist. The whole effort of evil seems aimed against it.

IS there anything in the Bible or Science and Health to justify the idea that healing is a lower thought in Science, which Scientists outgrow? Is there anything in the example of the Apostles or Jesus that warrants it? As to the example of Jesus, examining Robinson's Harmony of the Gospels, in which the events are chronologically arranged, we find that Jesus healed almost up to the last month of his ministry. This adverse thought may have been occasioned by the fact that healing is one of the first steps to take in demonstrating Christian Science; also by the fact that a smaller degree of spiritual realization suffices, at first, to heal than to teach; but it does not follow from this that the advanced Christian Scientist outgrows healing sickness, any more than the astronomer outgrows arithmetic.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed; for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 2 John i.

From the Denver Republican, we quote as follows: The Christian Science church on Logan avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues, was dedicated yesterday, services being held both morning and evening. The ceremonies were presided over by the pastor, J.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. —Matt.

Having occasion to take an open-air trip after a brisk shower one day last summer, the writer hailed a passing "electric," took a front end-seat, and was soon speeding some little distance out over a broad and glistening river. The smiling blue-and-white expanse above, mirrored on its tranquil surface, momentarily refreshed; but, leaving the fair scene behind, we faced the depressing prospect of an unbroken line of mud threading its way between rows of houses.