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LYING DOWN

  I will feed My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. EZEKIEL XXXI V.

SPIRIT OR MATTER

Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. GENESIS iii.

CLING THE CLOSER

We heard a comforting and delightful sermon recently from the text, "And a little child shall lead them. " The minister used this illustration: We take our little child in our arms out of the bright, gas-lit parlor, to carry it to its bed.

AXIOMS

"Truth can always be proved true. " This is the proposition always insisted upon, where religious statements are under discussion by skeptics; and because skeptics claim that all truth can be proven, and that some statements in religion are incapable of proof, therefore skeptics hold that all religion is open to doubt.

THE TRANSFIGURATION

The Transfiguration of our Lord and Master occurred on or near Mount Hermon. Though it is not positively known that this mount was the place of the sacred vision witnessed by Peter, James, and John, yet many eminent Bible scholars and commentators, whose judgment is generally accepted, refer to Mount Hermon as the probable site of this remarkable manifestation.

[A paper read before the last Annual Meeting of the Vermont State Homœopathic Medical Society, by the Chairman of the Bureau of Materia Medica. E.

MODUS OPERANDI OF DEMONOLOGY

The manner of Hypnotism we point out in the following instance of its effect on mortal mind. A lady who intended to enter our college was influenced, instead, to study mortal mind-cure.

SOME APPLES, AND WHAT THEY DID

Every boy in Little River knew where those apples grew. The youngest urchin in the place was shown the tree that bore them, on his first trudge to the little red schoolhouse on the brow of the hill.

STEADFAST RESISTANCE

Get thee behind me, Satan, Mark viii. 33.

GROWTH A MIRACLE

There is an old Jewish tradition to this effect. Solomon, when a young man, greatly desired to see a miracle.