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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath mads me free from the law of sin and death. — Paul.

Guard against executing your fellow-men piously. I would prefer that you should execute them brutally, like wild savages, than to see you destroy them under a Christianly guise.

A little incident taught the writer a helpful lesson and made such a deep impression upon him that he will not soon forget it. One morning he looked out of the window and an imposing and inspiring picture greeted the eye.

Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. — George Macdonald.

To the Editor of The Sun — Sir : There was recently published in The Sun a letter from Mrs. Jessie Crounse Hitchcock of Omaha, Neb.

A King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Since Christ Jesus taught his disciples to pray, "Thy will be done," submission to the Divine will has been regarded as a Christian duty. The prayers of the faithful throughout the centuries have arisen for light, guidance, and a knowledge of God's will.

It is recorded in the fourth chapter of the First Book of Kings that Solomon's wisdom and understanding "excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt," so that his fame was greater than all the kings that had been before or should come after him. Yet, after sounding the depths of human experience, he reached the conclusion that all was "vanity and vexation of spirit" and finally declared, "Lo, this only have I found [discovered, Ferrar Fenton Translation], that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

In former days the story of Cain and Abel used to arouse a vague sense of injustice in the writer; it seemed hard that Abel's gift should be accepted and Cain's rejected, for seemingly they each gave of their best, but the light of Christian Science has enabled her to see more clearly the divine justice which "had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. " We know that "a wrong motive involves defeat"(Science and Health, p.

Any business man will tell you that the more he knows about his business, the more likely he is to succeed in it. It may be laid down as a self-evident proposition that when one is unfamiliar with the details of his business, or when lie leaves it to some one else to manage, there is often shipwreck of his fortunes.