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Outline of a sermon preached in Scranton, Pa. , by S.

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. "— John viii.

Beloved Students and Friends : Certain legal proceedings with reference to the title to the church lot in Boston, valued at $20,000 and upwards, which I donated about three years ago for the specific purpose of building thereon a church edifice, have been taken, which, I am advised by my legal advisors, reverted the title in me. As soon as this end was accomplished I executed a trust deed of the lot, a copy of which is herewith appended.

HAVING spent the evening in talking Christian Science, after retiring, the following vision appeared to me, clear and distinct. I have since thought of it many times, only to find it brighter and clearer.

As a child I was feeble, could never run and play like other children, and life was a burden to me. I was under the care of my father who had been a druggist, and who was a so-called "patent-medicine man.

Mortal "history repeats itself" in motive, action and result, whatever the seeming aim. The light of Christian Science renders vivid the following picture of mortal mind's righteousness:—"I think the form of failure to which it is most liable is this, that being generous-hearted, and wholly intending always to do right, it does not attend to the external laws of right, but thinks it must necessarily do right because it means to do so, and therefore does wrong without finding it out; and then when the consequences of its wrong come upon it, or upon others connected with it, it cannot conceive that the wrong is in anywise of its causing or of its doing, but flies into wrath.

THIS morning there is recalled a mental picture, in which the writer seemed seated on the principal corner of the main street in the home of boyhood's days; near the old, familiar "town pump. " A document was handed me by an old friend whom I have always held in high esteem.

MUCH is said of the meek and mighty Nazarene as our High Priest. Mortal mind likes to be hand-and-glove with a high dignitary after he is proven such; without meeting, on its own part, the requirements necessary to precede the honorable association.

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. "Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years I am so weary of toil and of tears, Toll without recompense, tears all in vain,— Take them, and give me my childhood again.

I do not say that we shall ever repeat the miracles of the New Testament. Nevertheless, I cannot forget Christ's solemn declaration: "Greater works than these shall he do" (who believes in me), "because I go to my Father.