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Outline of a sermon preached in Chickering Hall, by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

As far back in childhood as I can remember, I had a longing to know about God. Rather than play and romp as other children, I found happiness in reading the Bible to the old negroes on the plantation, and telling them all I could about the beautiful things recorded therein.

WHEN from competent judge or jury of our peers, instead of hoped-for approval we receive unlooked-for rebuke, do we realize that the consequent feeling of having suffered injustice has its basis in vanity? This alone is the source of all sense of injustice. In proof, witness our ready excuses, our earnestly presented reasons (?) for ignorance or folly.

Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. — Matthew xvii.

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow so as no fuller on earth can white them.

The Scranton, Pa. ,  Republican for January 27, 1892, contains a friendly descriptive notice under caption, Church of Christ.

"Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. " To human consciousness, liberty is the highest estate of man.

Quick in thought and action, my Peter-like disposition often brought me into much discord, from which I had frequently to suffer; yet the same quickness of thought and action under God's guidance, have as often been the means of saving me from destruction. From Boston I shipped as second mate on board ship bound for Brazil, thence to Valparaiso.

I am the Lord, and there is none else; beside me there is no God: I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me: I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I am the Lord that doeth all these things.

Observations , both recent and otherwise, indicate that a few words on this subject may be timely. Much may be said of the unwisdom of habitual newspaper reading, which is comparable to a daily plunge-bath in mortal mind—a proceeding more calculated to refresh a sense of the reality of evil, than anything else — and of reading fiction, which, from a Christian Science point of view, is nothing better than being filled with the serpent's meat, dust; still, the most harmful, because superficially most like Truth, is that line of literature which might be styled "Uninspired Metaphysics.