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In the Gospel record we read that at a certain time after the Resurrection, when Jesus was walking with two of his disciples, "their eyes were holden, that they should not know him. " Then the disciples, whose mortal vision had been glorified by seeing the Master raise the dead and walk the wave, lost, for the first time, their understanding that all was Mind, and were withheld, apparently by some power, from realizing that they were in the actual presence of their Master.

He was spending the summer in the old town of Billerica, at his Aunt Ridley's. A fine old farm she had, and there she had lived through many years.

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. Matthew v.

Goodness is as the early dew. —hosea vi.

With all long-suffering. I timothy iv.

For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans viii.

And they turned not when they went. —ezekiel i.

The teaching of Christian Science makes unity of thought with us, as a people, unqualifiedly essential, if we desire success in overcoming even the uneducated forces of mortal mind. There should be the bond of union and sympathy between us that comes from the spiritual sense of our oneness in Christ—a practical Christianity, wherein the Spirit should supersede the letter, and technicalities should give place to the demonstrable.

When Peter was on trial for preaching and practising Christianity, he said to the Court ( Acts iv. 10 ): "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

In the older time of broad hearths and open fireplaces, of wood -fires, huge backlogs, brilliant flames, and glowing coals, there was occasionally a commotion in the burning pile, which would shoot out sparks, sometimes singly and sometimes almost in a shower, lending a new brightness and activity to the scene, even though evanescent. At the forge, too, where the hammer comes down on the redhot iron, brilliant, glittering particles follow the blow, and go out, only to be repeated with each successive stroke.