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And he opened his mouth and taught them. — Matthew v.

Ask and it shall be given you. MATTHEW vii.

When we who have professed to be, and thought we were, Christians, faithfully following in the footsteps of Jesus for years, first get a glimpse of the true Light, what a tumultuous commotion of thoughts contending with each other! but as we follow God's chosen, our only Leader, up the mountain of Truth, until we are able to understand the teachings of Jesus the Christ, what rapture fills our hearts, that we are at last out of the darkness, and in the Light, Life, Love, and Truth that is Good, God. Sometimes we feel almost as though eternity would not be long enough for the expression of our gratitude to our Father, and we realize how much there is to do, to win the world to this Light,—the world of those who call themselves Christians, and yet know so little of Christ! How little men know of Jesus, and his work or Life! They are looking to our belief about his body which was nailed to the cross on Calvary, and they call that the Christ; when Jesus only allowed his enemies to nail his body there, in order to show them, and us, that there is no death, and that Mind has perfect power over all formations and over our material beliefs.

I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep, and am known of mine, John x. 14.

In the July number of the Century Magazine may be found a paper called " Christian Science " and " Mind Cure " from the able pen of Rev. Dr.

A famous magician has recently been exhibiting his powers in Boston. The Sunday Record prints the conversation of one of its contributors, styled The Modern Athenian, with an old Bostonian, who resided in Calcutta many years.

Here is another story about something akin to Animal Magnetism, which is copied from a contemporary periodical: In the siege of Breda in 1625, the garrison had the scurvy. The Prince of Orange, unable to relieve the place, sent in, by a confidential messenger, a preparation to be added to a quantity of water, and given as a specific for the epidemic.

From the Saturday Review are gleaned some very interesting statements on this subject, which is nearly related to Animal Magnetism. A chief employment of an Italian witch is to attacare (attack) persons.

[Abstract of an extempore discourse, delivered May 22, in Chickering Hall, Boston, by Captain S.F. Linscott, of Chicago.]

An industrious young shoemaker fell into the habit of spending much time in a saloon. One by one his customers began to desert him.