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The Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of Truth. Paul.

Children cannot begin too young to earn money. If it is only a little,—one egg for every dozen they find, pay for carrying the milk, a few cents per week for washing dishes or bringing in the wood or coal or kindlings, so much for every towel they hem, or they may keep bens of their own, or a pig, or care for their own calf along with the other cattle,—how much more interest will they take! There are an infinite number of ways in which a child can earn money, and that, too, without paying him for his little kindnesses to the home people, either; and then he has an almost inexpressible feeling of pride and independence when he buys something with his own earnings.

"If more fathers would take a course with their sons similar to the one my father took with me," observed one of the leading business men of Boston, "the boys might think it hard at the time, but they'd thank them in after life. " "What sort of a course?" we asked.

Old Fetch was a shepherd dog, and lived in the Highlands of the Hudson. His master kept nearly a dozen cows, and they ranged at will among the hills during the day.

Barbarous times are marked by an excessive severity in everything, and therefore in parental government. Reaction from this generates a disposition to forego all home government; and this is fostered by indolence, and a reluctance to endure the mental and moral concern and the toil of careful consideration involved in the proper moral training of children.

The other day, a gentleman was driving a lady along the pretty prairie road that leads to the Falls of Minnehaha, when they saw a flock of sheep feeding beneath an oak-tree. In the centre of the field was a long trough, fed from a spring, where the lambs and sheep could drink.

Editor Journal : Once more we crave space in your columns, earnestly desiring that Truth may guide our pen to utter thoughts that shall be manna to many who are hungering and thirsting after spiritual things. Though scarcely yet in the a-b-c class of Christian Scientists, and though the growth in science is slow, we feel that it is sure.

In the eternal reign of Spirit, ease is found in unceasing activity. There is nothing to induce or affirm any other condition.

Dear Friend : I am sorry that your unfavorable circumstances are made the source of so much trouble. You have yielded to temptation, and allowed the entrance into your heart of bitterness, impatience and irritability, which are very bad guests indeed.

Dear Journal Readers. — You are returning home, or soon will be, and a consideration of the Cause you profess to love is required of you.