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A delicate child, pale and prematurely wise, was complaining, on a hot morning, that some poor dewdrops had been too hastily snatched away, and not allowed to glitter on the flowers like other happier dewdrops, which live through the whole night, and sparkle in the moonlight and through the morning, onwards to noonday. "The sun," said the child, "has chased them away with his heat, or swallowed them up in his wrath.

A tree planted by the rivers of water. —Psalms i.

Once upon a time there was an Ass who was a very good Ass, but whose life were very agitated. This was because of a little difficulty of hearing, with which he was afflicted.

Eye hath not seen nor ear heard.

Now the Lord had said unto Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country-and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. " Genesis xii.

Heaven will be to us what we make it. The Master has taught us the way, in precept, example, death, and resurrection; but all he has done for us will not suffice for our redemption, unless we believe and accept him as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

If one set not the thought determinately to obtain Divine Truth, and utter it, he is already in a state of mind indicative of discord. There is nothing decided about such a state, except what is false.

David declares that the word of God is a lamp to his feet, and a light to his path. Truly it is to each one of us a light, a guide, without which we should wander in Stygian darkness.

It has seemed to me, many times, that a word to new beginners—especially those studying alone, and perhaps groping blindly in the dark—might not come amiss. I think it is nearly always the case, that those who take up Christian Science as a study, are driven to do so from some physical difficulty.

"Error is human illusion, without personal identity or Principle, and has no existence save in mistaken human belief," and illusion is never reality. If illusion were reality, then it would no longer be illusion, but would be fact or Truth, and would contain none of the elements of error.