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Who was Jesus? Jesus was the Son of God, conceived by the Virgin Mary. He was the mediator between divinity and humanity.

We read in the Gospel according to John ( viii. 36 ) that Jesus once said: "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

In reality, what is the difference between 1888 and 1889? None. With God "one day is as a thousand years.

Let us now suppose that the stimulus comes from the outer world, instead of from the brain of the sleeper, and we have precisely what happens in hypnotism. Suggestibility is by no means peculiar to hypnotized persons.

A pretty Western editress runs an Express pouring out threatenings against the author of Science and Health, whence she seeks the little she knows of Christian Science. She is glaringly on the wrong track for driving by this author, whose way is the highway of holiness, which leads to harmony, light, and Love; while her critic's is the byway of envy, jealousy, and hate.

Surprising as it seems, I believe it to be true that not a little positively false morality is taught children by respectable and educated persons, — not consciously, of course, but through want of thought as to the impression made upon the child's mind by the words and actions of its elders. It is not only ignorant and irresponsible nurses, but too commonly the child's own mother who confuses its sense of right and wrong, by putting the expedient before it in the place of the right.

One of our present recollections of childhood is that it was a time when we were confident of being taken care of. We took no thought for raiment, but to wear it when it was provided.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

There is a division of opinion just now in regard to the name which forms the subject of this paper. Some, hearing the name Christian Science, and attracted by the peace and comfort it brings, come to it, hoping to still hold all they seem to possess of earthly riches and fame; but when they find that "ye can not serve God and mammon," they are like the young man who had kept all the commandments, from his youth up, and yet went away sorrowful, because Jesus told him the one thing more, needful to obtain the Kingdom of Heaven, was the selling of all he seemed to possess, — and giving it to the poor, or those who seemed to have nothing good.

Broadly defined, Christian Science is the living, the bringing out in practical demonstration, of the Christlife. Christian Science does away with the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, in so far as it discards the commonly accepted doctrine that the shedding of Jesus' blood on the cross paid the penalty of man's transgression, without work or effort of man's own.