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The summer when Harry was nine years old he was to be in Gloucester, an old Massachusetts town. Mother had already gone thither, with Brother Herbert and Baby.

The Lord is at hand. COLOSSIANS iv.

The law was a schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith; but after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GALATIANS iii.

Again , ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the Great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Much has been said for and against Truth, as declared in Christian Science. Much is said for it; because no one can come to know its meaning, and the power it gives for good, without feeling that it is beyond all things else,—that in reality it embraces all, and there is naught beside it.

Surely the Children of Israel have a home in Mind. To each of them belongs one of the many mansions in the Father's House.

We read in Luke's Gospel (xviii. 19) that Jesus replied to the young man who asked him what he should do to inherit Eternal Life: "Why callest thou me Good? None is Good save one,—that is, God.

In a former article was considered the miracle of healing the lame man, wrought by Peter at the Gate of the Temple, called Beautiful, as related in the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. We may gladly consent unto the profession of our Science, that it heals by the same method that the Saviour used.

Says  the Psalmist, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?" To the right loyal Christian Scientists—working through the gloom, joyous in the night, looking for the day—I am the debtor. Words are weak to express either joy or sorrow.

To our Journal : What shall be said of men who profess but do not practice? That they are hypocrites? Not always. As has been wisely said, Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.