Articles

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. —Matt.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen.

As the cause of Christian Science is extending rapidly all over our country, and the Christian Scientists' Association, of Boston, is exclusively a society of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, I deem it advisable that an organization be formed on a broader basis, by which all Christian Scientists and their students may come together; and I would recommend that steps be taken by my students, throughout the United States, to organize a National Christian Scientists' Association.

The entrance of Thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple. Psalm cxix.

The experience of to-day differs not essentially from that of past ages, in point of Truth's betrayals. If this grave charge attaches to parties who may have received, from our most worthy teacher, special fitness for the sacred trusts committed to their care, I do solemnly urge upon them to beware of misusing these unprecedented favors, lest by so doing they sharpen the weapons of their own destruction.

One of the squarest confirmations of the correctness of the theories maintained by this Journal, is to be found in the opinions of Al Watts, the famous animal-fancier and physician, as recently given by him to an interviewer. He says he has been bitten over and over again, by all sorts of animals, and has never had a touch of anything that resembles hydrophobia.

The peace, the rest, the sure strength, that he finds who "dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High," can never be known or appreciated by one who has not that abiding sense of security from the "terror by night" and the "arrow that flieth by day. " Neither "the pestilence that walketh in darkness," nor "the destruction that wasteth at noonday," approaches him, except to depart, for God is both refuge and fortress.

Attention is called to this volume. It s worth the notice, not only of Christian Scientists, but of all who are interested in the progress of truth.

At the last meeting of the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Brown-Sequard related a very remarkable instance of the power of sympathy, which came within his recent observation.

This period is big with events. Fraught with history, it repeats the past and portends much for the future.