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The arguments for and against woman suffrage have all been discussed so often that it will hardly be possible to offer anything which will be new to the readers of the Christian Science Journal. But until the truth militant becomes the truth triumphant, it has to be restated again and again, however weary both friends and foes may grow of the repetition.

Paul was a philosopher of his time, and a man much noted for his learning; but when called by the voice of the lowly Jesus, whose doctrines and followers he had, up to this time, treated with ridicule and cruelty, he did not stop to bring his knowledge of science and philosophy to bear upon the simple words of Truth, when presented to him, before accepting them. Turning to the voice, he replied: "Lord, I am ready! What wouldst thou have me do?" What a lesson might be drawn, by the learned but misguided philosophers of the present day, from this wonderful demonstration of Truth, in the case of Paul.

  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so-called, which some professing, have erred concerning the faith. We find the above text in 1 Tim.

If we are awake to the dangers surrounding us, we may guard against them; but if we are deceived, we are indeed lost. The present age is one in which so much of what purports to be wisdom is forced upon the people, that they are given scarcely time to consider its utility.

The divine elevator of the human race, physically, morally, and spiritually, is the truism that Truth demonstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil, reproduces itself, and belongs not to nature nor to God. Truth is the power of God which heals the sick and sinner, and is applicable to all the needs of man.

A London paper tells of Bob, the firemen's dog, at the Southwark Fire-brigade station in London. Whenever the fire-bell rings, Bob is in a great hurry to be off.

Our little compositor is in her ninth year, and no doubt is the youngest known in the trade. She sets the type, justifies her own lines, but is not yet able to empty her "sticks.

It is strange that people reflect not more on how deeply storms, injuries, vile or mean things sink into a childs memory. If this be thought of, it is plain there is more loveliness when no forgiveness is needful than when it is granted, nor shall you be able to heal by any entreaty or by any means such a lesson of spirit as you may make in an instant in a young creature.

I want to tell you how the mammas away up in Lapland keep their babies from disturbing the minister on Sunday. Poor babies! I suppose it is growing bad style everywhere to take them out to church; and I suppose, too, that the ministers are, privately, as thankful as can be.

The word temperance, in these days, is coming to the signification of abstention from intoxicating drinks. A special rather than its broader, and more general and accurate meaning; and it is in this more limited sense that I use it.