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A pretty Western editress runs an Express pouring out threatenings against the author of Science and Health, whence she seeks the little she knows of Christian Science. She is glaringly on the wrong track for driving by this author, whose way is the highway of holiness, which leads to harmony, light, and Love; while her critic's is the byway of envy, jealousy, and hate.

Surprising as it seems, I believe it to be true that not a little positively false morality is taught children by respectable and educated persons, — not consciously, of course, but through want of thought as to the impression made upon the child's mind by the words and actions of its elders. It is not only ignorant and irresponsible nurses, but too commonly the child's own mother who confuses its sense of right and wrong, by putting the expedient before it in the place of the right.

One of our present recollections of childhood is that it was a time when we were confident of being taken care of. We took no thought for raiment, but to wear it when it was provided.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

There is a division of opinion just now in regard to the name which forms the subject of this paper. Some, hearing the name Christian Science, and attracted by the peace and comfort it brings, come to it, hoping to still hold all they seem to possess of earthly riches and fame; but when they find that "ye can not serve God and mammon," they are like the young man who had kept all the commandments, from his youth up, and yet went away sorrowful, because Jesus told him the one thing more, needful to obtain the Kingdom of Heaven, was the selling of all he seemed to possess, — and giving it to the poor, or those who seemed to have nothing good.

In God man lives, moves, and has his being. This is the Truth of Being; and to gain the realization of spiritual Life, there must be a daily growth Heavenward, a forsaking of the things of earth, — its joys, pleasures, sorrows, and sufferings, — through the influx of the Spirit, bringing joy unspeakable, and a peace which passeth all understanding, a sense of harmony which must come from "Life hid with Christ in God.

Broadly defined, Christian Science is the living, the bringing out in practical demonstration, of the Christlife. Christian Science does away with the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, in so far as it discards the commonly accepted doctrine that the shedding of Jesus' blood on the cross paid the penalty of man's transgression, without work or effort of man's own.

Long , long ago there was witnessed, at dead of night, a sight in the heavens more wonderful than had ever before been witnessed by human eye. No astronomer, however well versed in his science, has ever hinted at the cause of this strange phenomenon.

I remember hearing a story in connection with our battlefields. One weary, dreary night, while our army was on the eve of a great and important battle, a soldier paced up and down before the tent of his general.

Brothers And Sisters in the Cause of Truth! Are ye awake in Spirit, or are ye asleep in matter? Can ye discern the face of the sky and the signs of the times? Hark! Do ye hear! "The Bridegroom cometh!" Listen to the sweet refrain, and not from afar, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive honor and glory and power!" Nearer come the melodious strains, bursting into harmony on the midnight air. "He shall redeem Israel!" Louder and louder the trumpet sounds: "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! for He that is omnipotent reigneth!" Are your lamps trimmed, are they burning? Have ye oil (consecration) in your vessels with your lamps (Truth)? S.