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I want the internal oracle, Thy still, small voice together with Urim and Thummin, the new name which none knoweth but he that receiveth it. In a word, Lord, I want a plenitude of Thy Spirit, the full promise of the Father, and the rivers which flow from the inmost divine center into the hearts of believers.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Young Students of Christian Science : Do you know we are like a flock of birdlings, just pushed out from the nest to begin to try our strength? We have not yet grown to where we can call ourselves old enough to get along without the Mother-bird. So long as we do not wander beyond the sound of her call, and obey it, we are safe; but the fairest day, the sunniest sky betrays us into danger, for the Hawk is there, ever ready to swoop down and bear away the young who are unguarded.

Whether it be for good or evil, the education of a child is principally derived from its own observation of the actions, the words, the voice, the looks of those with whom it lives. It is not enough, then, that parents and others set no bad example ; it is indispensable that they set a good one.

Observe the fervid thought which inspired St. Paul! His success was due to the conviction that he preached the plain Truth.

" For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. "— Rom.

A few immortal sentences, stimulated by justice, have broken fetters and abolished whipping posts and slave markets. Tyranny will go down in blood, and the breath of Freedom come from the cannon's mouth.

It is often remarked by professing Christians, who know little of what we as Christian Scientists profess, and less of what we understand, that we are unsound in faith and doctrine,—that we are led astray through the fallacious belief that Christ, Truth, heals the sick as well as the sinner; which is, so far, just what we do believe; and moreover, it is what we understand to be true. And being verified every day in demonstration, why should we doubt its truthfulness? It is certainly true that Jesus while on earth, and as our exempler, in his office of love and mercy, left us as many examples of his power to heal sickness as sin ; and sent his disciples into the world armed with the same power and to perform the mission, wherein he gave them charge to heal the sick and cast out devils, sin.

Any question which practically interests disciples, because it is closely linked to the interpretation of the Word, or to a godly life, we have no right nor power to dismiss, as of trifling importance. We may not avoid or evade an answer, though we may frame a hasty reply, or pelt with merciless sneers those who, in an age of degeneracy and apostacy, seek to gratify and satisfy a spiritual craving for full knowledge of the Truth.

To be known of men is to have a reputation, a possession which may belong to animate or inanimate objects. Personal reputation is based on the capacity to ascend above, or descend below, the ordinary range of human ability in some special line, while material objects are held in more or less repute, according to prevailing fashions rather than for any intrinsic values.

Anatomists , physiologists, physicians, and all students of what they term the "human organization," have spent more time and effort in their search for "life," than any other problem connected with existence; indeed, in the case of every investigator who has gone beyond the merely superficial, all other investigations have really been tributary to the great question. The amount of investigation expended in more recent years upon the brain, and nervous system and their action,—because the idea has prevailed that they were more intimately connected with "mind" or "life" than any of the other organs,—may be called, without much exaggeration, incalculable.