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Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb gives this clear title to her book, of 300 handsome pages, recently published by Cupples, Upham & Co. In many respects it is an interesting work, especially in its stories to illustrate the rational powers of birds and beasts, and its quotations to prove that the Bible nowhere teaches that man naturally possesses an immortal soul or spirit; for apparently she agrees with the Second Adventists, that, when a human being dies, he wholly perishes, soul as well as body, and that if there be immortality for man, it must be because God raises him from the dead and clothes him with a new body.

In which are some things hard to be under stood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter Ill.

Every house is builded by some man, but He that built all things is God. Hebrews iii.

January 24, the pastor, Mrs. Eddy, preached, for the first time in several months.

On Jan. 31 Mr.

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A meeting was called Jan. 29, at 368 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass.

Mesmerism, discovered by the famous Mesmer, about the year 1772,—which includes animal-magnetism and odylism, spirit-rapping, mediumship, clairvoyance, —has been practised by the various professors of the art, ever since. It was not however till 1866 that Mrs.

A most beneficent charity is the establishment of a Kindergarten for the Blind. A Roxbury estate has been bought, and before long buildings will be ready for occupancy.

The deepest religious seer, who ever spoke on earth, charged the ecclesiastical functionaries of his day with making the commandment of God of no effect by their traditions. All over Christendom a cumbrous mass of doctrines and ceremonies has thrust aside the pure and simple teaching of Jesus, and again made the commandment of God of no effect, because of priestly traditions.