Articles

The need felt by students of their Teacher's counsel,— especially by those at a distance, working assiduously for our common cause,—and their constant petitions for the same, should be met in the most effectual way. To be responsible for supplying this want, and poise the wavering balance on the right side, is impracticable, without a full knowledge of the environments.

As a child she had scarcely any religious impressions. Of course she said her prayers; they all did, at the mother's knee, before Sleepy Time came; but that is not saying that she prayed, or even dimly understood the meaning of the word.

[Rev. M.

The following item, from the dailies, certainly indicates the nothingness of matter: A puzzle is now agitating the minds of photographers in Philadelphia. It lies in the fact that in a group of eighteen people, the objects behind the sitters appear in faint outlines, as if the bodies of the sitters were transparent.

A Family doctor tells the following anecdote in an English magazine. Professor Blank, of E,—devoted a whole week of the session to lecturing to his students on the subject of heart-diseases.

A Tract of four pages is issued by Mrs. G.

The summer when Harry was nine years old he was to be in Gloucester, an old Massachusetts town. Mother had already gone thither, with Brother Herbert and Baby.

The law was a schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith; but after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GALATIANS iii.

The Lord is at hand. COLOSSIANS iv.

Again , ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the Great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.