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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

MORTAL MIND-CURE LITERATURE versus CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

The appearance of a new book upon this subject, at this day in the history of mental healing, prompts me to give some account of the practice of such theories. Some of the views of mind-curers would be very well, if they were not called the essentials of mental healing.

REAL MANHOOD

Does not the following item, from a Maine paper, show how little real manhood depends upon the physique? It is n't every day that I see a man take off his spectacles to give them a rub, and off with them comes his nose. Such a combination of spectacles and proboscis did I see, while taking an excursion in the elevator car of the Mutual Insurance building at Portland, Friday morning.

PRECOCITY OF INTELLECT

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.

IMAGINARY ILLS

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.

DEATH NO TERROR

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.

THE NYMPHS

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.

THE WAY

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

FREEDOM THROUGH TRUTH

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

AN ANALOGY

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

THE TWO ACCOUNTS OF THE CREATION

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.