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How prone is mortal mind, alias human nature, alias human wisdom, to judge! Ever since the serpent whispered its subtle error into the listening ear of Eve, and led her to fancy she had a knowledge of good and evil, human wisdom has been striving to assert itself and demonstrate its assumed superiority. Human wisdom would long since have driven Divine Wisdom out of the world, if it could have done so.

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. — Matthew xxv.

It is the great achievement of modern times that men have acquired something like a definite knowledge of the material world about them. Accurate knowledge has supplanted vague speculation.

"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. " 2 Cor.

THE recent remark of a lady, now a living picture of health, has left a deep impression on my mind. She said, it almost made her tremble to think how near she came to giving up Christian Science treatment, simply because she had not been healed at once.

TO say there is no evil, or animal magnetism, because God is Love and there is nothing beside Him, is scientific. But to say there is no such claim to meet and reduce to its native nothingness, is unscientific for this is -equivalent to saying we have reached absolute Harmony, hence have overcome all error.

MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD says that "the best way to bring up a boy, is to begin one hundred years, at least, before his advent.

PAUL tells us in Hebrews xi. 10 : "For he looketh for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

ABOUT a year ago I heard a woman preach a sermon on Idolatry, in a town about fifty miles from here. The ideas expressed seemed to me the most reasonable of any I had ever heard on that subject, and I concluded right away to go some time during the summer and hear her again; but, being very busy with the affairs of the material world, I neglected it.

"And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. "— Luke xiii, 29.