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Frightened to Death

The following anecdote is on its rounds:— At the execution of the murderer Gagny, at Troyes recently, an incident took place, the like of which had never before been witnessed in France. The condemned man, during his trial and final imprisonment, did not evince the least fear.

ATONEMENT FOR SIN AND SICKNESS

The purpose of this article is to review a recent work by R. K.

JOHN G. WHITTIER

While intellect and reason may concur in giving to Browning and Dante a prominent place in the long line of the world's great poets, the heart pleads for the Quaker Bard, of our own time and land. Word-pictures may awe and thrill us, rhetoric and grace of diction may charm the ear; but the keynote of harmony, running through Whittier's rhymes, has its chord in the human affections.

HEREDITARY HABIT

Think , for a moment, that man is Mind, not a mixture of Mind and matter,—and that Mind creates its body, ignorantly or understandingly. That fact, plainly discerned, would prove a lever more potent to lift the mountains of disease, now pressing upon suffering humanity, than all the drugs dispensed with so liberal a hand.

THE NEW BIRTH

St. Paul speaks of what we understand to be the New Birth, as "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body.

CHAUNCY HALL

This school numbers, among its present pupils, two children now in the fourth year of their attendance, whose father (the writer) was a member of the school more than twenty years ago, when it stood on Chauncy Street, graduating when it occupied a part of the Globe Theatre Building. He has watched with interest the growth and prosperity of the school; and he realizes, from personal observation, that while the school has seen many ways in which to enlarge and improve its educational departments, the original high standing of moral excellence has remained the same as in his boyhood.

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

A wasteful  people, we Yankees. We buy foolishly, use foolishly, and throw away foolishly.

LENS AND PRISM

LENS AND PRISM. Animal magnetism is an imperfect lens, fitted to the  eye  of ignorance, malice, and superstition, through which it gazes at the chimeras of its own belief—its ghosts, goblins, and demons.

TRINITY

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew xxviii.

MADE BY GOD

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. —John i.