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As from the mount of vision, I behold, Pure, just and free, the Church of Christ on earth— The martyr's dream, the golden age foretold! C. A.

Grant , O my God, that neither the joy nor the sorrow of this period shall have visited my heart in vain! Make me wise and strong to the performance of immediate duties, and ripen me by what means thou seest best for the performance of those that lie beyond.

At the meeting of Congregational ministers, Monday, May 4th, in Boston, Prof. Stacy Fowler read a paper on "Mind-cure, or Christian Science.

The whole work of natural science might be described under this phase; it has laid hold of the physical universe, and shown that the reality is unlike that which first appears. It has thus bred a fine, wholesome skepticism, which is the basis of true knowledge, and of progress.

A clergyman writes: Are not "faith-cure" and Christian Science one and the same in process and result? Christian Science is not what is called "faith-cure:" we have the science of those cures. It is not mere faith or belief in God, but its rules are demonstrated according to understanding of Him.

[The following official announcement of the practice employed in the "Alcott case" has been copied into the leading papers of the country. We trust it will set the matter at rest in the minds of friends of Christian Science everywhere]:— Boston, May 15th.

" Puritanical intolerance is not so obsolete as has been supposed," is the comment of one of our dailies, in noting the remarks of the clergy at a recent meeting in Boston. It was admitted by some of the reverend gentlemen, that healing was wrought by Christian Science, but they denied the Christianity of it.

Is there a balm in Gilead for the numberless woes that afflict humanity? Is there a physician for the sick? Is there a resting-place for the weary? This is the wailing cry of millions today and the cry that has arisen to heaven for ages. We believe that "earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

— It is not the thought that we hold that has power,—it is the thought that holds us. The thought is in a way to become powerful when we adopt it, but it is not a power until it adopts us.

" Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the time, .