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One Sunday morning about three years ago, I was on board a steamship bound for Liverpool. It was Thanksgiving Day, too, and high winds and seas kept most of the passengers in their staterooms.

" Cast thy burden on the Lord. " These words are not simply in the way of advice or suggestion, but are in the line of Scientific demonstration and are definite and mandatory.

The preamble and resolutions published herewith explain so fully as to preclude comment, the latest of the steps by which we are being led to the fuller consciousness that "man is, not will be, spiritual,"—that we are living in the spiritual world, not in one that is material. "At a special meeting of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College Corporation, Oct.

A Thought of reversion comes to me so forcibly in these four words; take a card, write on it the words "live" and "lived;" hold it before a mirror, and the reflection you see in it reads "evil" and "devil. " Does it not seem a strange coincidence that "live" should spell "evil" backwards? In the one we have the real, in the other the unreal.

The long winter evenings are come again. How shall we turn them to good account? The writer of this sketch begs leave to relate a pleasant chapter of experiences which took place in his circle of friends and neighbors who are Scientists, during the past winter.

Two years ago I heard the word Science used in connection with Christian for the first time. Now I understand Science is Mind, and that we can neither lose Mind, nor be lost from it.

God is all. Be certain of the ever-present consciousness of Omnipotence—of Good.

" God is the Father of Mind and of Mind only. " Mind creates its own environments.

Four years ago, after eleven years of constant coughing and gradual decline, I weighed about ninety pounds, my cheek-bones stood out, my temples were sunken into great hollows, my hands were almost transparent, my complexion like a piece of parchment. When my friends entered the room I could often see plainly written on their peering, questioning countenances,—"Is she dead?" In four and one-half months from the time above stated, I weighed 132½ pounds, my complexion was clear, I coughed but little, and felt perfectly well, though at times, there was still in my throat a rattling sound which gave my friends much uneasiness.

" The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. " Jesus spoke thus, striving by parables to open eyes blinded by material belief, to perception of the heaven of spiritual consciousness.