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It seems almost like a return to the old laws against witchcraft, when we read of the strict legal enactments which two leading European countries have already deemed it necessary to make concerning Hypnotism. The reality of that strange mental and physical condition having been scientifically established, cases of its abuse have become frequent enough to cause stringent legislation against it in France and Denmark.

There comes to our notice, from time to time, reports that Christian Science is a dangerous study, inasmuch as it unfolds the Scriptural fact that God is too pure to behold iniquity, notwithstanding it furnishes unmistakable proofs of the verity of this assertion. That it gives no license whatever to evil-doing will be seen in the following statement, to be found in the pamphlet entitled Christian Science: No and Yes: God is Truth, and the law of Life and Truth is the law of Christ, destroying all sense of sin and death.

In one of our New England towns there lived a little girl whom we will call Minnie. She was left an orphan in earliest infancy.

Well does the writer remember when he first heard this phrase. An old teacher said: "I see, in talking with your children, that you have taught them to read pictures!" In a recent number of The Ohio Educational Monthly and National Teacher is an essay on this subject, worth reading.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend 'thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate, LUKE xiii. 24.

Will wonders never cease? One man, whom the writer has met, made the astounding discovery, that the term Christian Science is not to be found in the Bible; and with this overwhelming argument he hoped to silence the guns of Truth. We fail to find the terms Methodist, Presbyterian, Trinity, God-man, Character, and hundreds of others in the Bible; yet we do not question the use of them.

It is a fact that a majority of the human family are striving to better their circumstances or condition in life, believing that in so doing they will become happier. What will man not do in search of gain? He explores the depths of earth and sea for their hidden treasures.

The best sermon ever preached is Truth demonstrated. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life;" and he proved it by his demonstrations.

Much is said of God's judgments on man, and that everlasting punishment alone will satisfy divine justice. Limited mortal thought can not measure the quantity or quality of infinite and eternal Good.