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Chatterton wrote all his beautiful things, exhausted all hopes of life, and saw nothing better than death,—at the early age of eighteen. Burns and Byron died in their thirty-seventh year, and doubtless the strength of their genius was over.

A Philadelphia , physician says that a great deal of what passes for heart-disease is only mild dyspepsia, that nervousness commonly is bad temper, and that two-thirds of the so-called malaria is nothing but laziness. Imagination, he says, is responsible for a multitude of ills; and he gives as an instance the case of a clergyman who, after preaching a sermon, would take a teaspoonful of sweetened water, and doze off like a babe, under the impression that it was a bona fide sedative.

Though called the King of Terrors, death is not necessarily terrifying. There is no need of destroying the fear of death, if no such fear exists.

I was standing before a splendid, crescent-shaped, extended chain of mountains, which were covered from top to bottom by green, young woods. The transparent blue of the northern sky was above them; the sunbeams were playing on their summits.

What I have written I have written. — John xix.

And the Truth shall make you free—John viii. 32.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. —Matthew v.

It is not at all surprising, when we come to give the matter due thought, that we find Christian Science—the scientific and practically applied method of the pure and uncorrupted religion of Jesus Christ, as embodied in the Holy Scriptures—meeting with the combined antagonism of the teachers and advocates of the many improvements—inventions of human wisdom—which from time to time have been added, to render the too plain and simple teachings of the humble and lowly Jesus more palatable to human intelligence, and the wishes and desires of a selfish and fashionable world,—the greater part of which are merely professors of Jesus, not deeming it necessary to walk with or after him, but rather preferring to live wholly for the things rejected and despised by him,—such as the desires of the flesh, the cravings for earthly power and glory, and the ambition to be thought wise and great,—all of which his teachings proved to be erring, illusive, at war with Spirit, "and at enmity with God. " The upholders of these improved dogmas and doctrines, unwilling to acknowledge their own erring blindness, vainly seek,—and for some sixteen centuries have sought,—with cheerless and unsatisfying offerings of empty, meaningless forms and creeds, and unsupported words, to appease the spiritual cravings of the Christian heart, for the Substance, and not the shadow, of the religion of Christ,—for the practical proof of the teachings in the fulfilment of the promises made by our Lord,—not for any special period of time, but for all time,—that certain clear and positive signs should follow all them who believe in him.

It is possible that a study of the two accounts of the Creation, as found in Genesis, would be of interest to Christian Scientists who have not fully settled the subject in their minds. Certainly, it will be of interest to those few of your readers who seem to think we have no right to throw out a word or sentence found in Holy Writ, and who try to preserve the letter of the law at the expense of the spiritual part of it.

Delivered by Dr. E.