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A few Sunday mornings since, I went into my study to prepare a discourse, or rather some spiritual food, for the little flock I try to feed, that they may grow into the consciousness of their vast possessions as spiritual children of God; and as usual, I commenced in silence to solicit help from God. I felt that I had but little light and lesser understanding.

It is said that history repeats itself, and the serpent that was so successfully beguiling in the story of the original sin, is luring our people to-day. "Ye shall be as gods," was the promise of non-intelligent error.

At first sight, Truth always wears the garb of paradox. The orthodox is the accepted.

This able and interesting Monthly always contains a fine array of topics, treated by writers of acknowledged ability. No lover of New England, nor any admirer of the genius of the people who are to the manor born, can afford to be ignorant of its contents.

" My mother was an angel upon earth. She was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action.

Taste is a desire and appreciation of beauty. Culture is the regulated use and enjoyment of beauty.

Our story of a lion dying from unsatisfied love for a friend of his youth, exemplifies the truth that thought and feeling create, or destroy, or modify the body. If it is so strikingly manifest at times in the brute world, how much more should we expect it to operate in the higher forms of existence.

Manner is the style normal to the man; and every man has a characteristic manner, whether or not he has any manners. Manners are the forms of respect paid to circumstances, to other persons and their relations.

Gerard , the great lion-hunter, captured a whelp in the mountains of Jebel-Meziour (Algiers), and named it "Hubert,' and brought it up as he would bring up a dog from puppyhood, until the child of the "king of the desert" regarded him with a dog's affection, and followed him everywhere. After some time, his huge pet becoming too dangerous to go at large, Gerard made a present of the animal to his friend the Duc d' Aumale; and Hubert traveled to Paris in a big cage, bemoaning his separation from his old master.

The home is especially the sphere for culture and practise of Christian Science, and to the family our Magazine should be eminently adapted. Our new department therefore, of Home, will, we are sure, be welcomed by all our readers; and experience will teach us how to provide better than at the first essay.