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What a Babel of tongues, what a confusion of sound is heard, if one stops a moment to listen! Who, without the keynote, can distinguish the true tone from the false? What wonder that the beginner soon loses his pitch, drops to the bottom of the scale, and is finally lost sight of? There is but one way to steer clear of the many pitfalls, and that is to clasp tightly the little truth we have, and close our ears to the babbling of the crowd. Many are so anxious to ventilate their ideas, that they do not wait to know the Truth, but send out their erroneous thoughts, labelled Christian Science.

The higher we rise in the understanding of Truth, the greater our demonstration, and the more subtle the error we have to meet. I learn from my own experience, and by observing that of others, that this correspondence is kept up, and there is nothing for us to do but work constantly on the side of Truth, and be instant in season and out of season, never stopping in our upward march.

Paul Wendell was an only child. He could boast of loyal English blood, since his mother was reared under the strict rule of the Mother Country, and his father was British-born, though bred in America.

Paul was sailing to Rome under military guard. The ship was wrecked.

Charity suffereth long: and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. I CORINTHIANS xiii.

Art is the work of the mind of man. If that mind is mean, his art is poor.

The need felt by students of their Teacher's counsel,— especially by those at a distance, working assiduously for our common cause,—and their constant petitions for the same, should be met in the most effectual way. To be responsible for supplying this want, and poise the wavering balance on the right side, is impracticable, without a full knowledge of the environments.

As a child she had scarcely any religious impressions. Of course she said her prayers; they all did, at the mother's knee, before Sleepy Time came; but that is not saying that she prayed, or even dimly understood the meaning of the word.

[Rev. M.

The following item, from the dailies, certainly indicates the nothingness of matter: A puzzle is now agitating the minds of photographers in Philadelphia. It lies in the fact that in a group of eighteen people, the objects behind the sitters appear in faint outlines, as if the bodies of the sitters were transparent.