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In a state of vision, or wakefulness, I cannot tell which, I saw floating over my head four words: "Thy will be done. " The words first appeared black and heavy, like iron.

A correspondent of a certain paper says: "Mind cure" is a difficult subject to grasp, especially for one outside the fraternity of Scientists, for it is wholly unique in its philosophy of health and disease. Its teachings seem on first view to be in many points at variance with the accepted facts of science and the lessons of personal-sense concussions.

The curse of humanity is the inherent habit of holding fast to traditions. On the other hand, it is unwise to be seduced by every doctrine.

If thou knowest thyself well, thou art better, and more praiseworthy before God, than if thou didst not know thyself, but didst understand the course of the heavens and of all the planets and stars, also the virtue of all herbs, and the structure and dispositions of all mankind, also the nature of all beasts, and, in such matters, hadst all the skill of all who are in heaven and on earth. — Theologia Germanica.

We have not in times past understood the true meaning of the words "fasting" and "prayer. " We have almost universally supposed that prayer meant a long petition to a personal God to grant a favor greatly desired, we willingly abstaining from food and other comforts to aid in propitiating the great Being whose blessing we humbly sought.

"The sacred books of the Hindus profess to teach science as well as religion; and the science they teach is, according to them, as decidedly revealed as the form of faith embodied in them. Consequently, Hinduism stands or falls with the science with which it is inseparably connected.

Every genuine reform attracts cheap following. Every real coin has its counterfeit.

Is it the Christian Scientists' "scare," or is it something to be seriously considered and crushed in the bud? Without commenting pro or con upon the subject, I will relate an experience of my own, which, if explainable on any other hypothesis I would gladly be informed. I had safely and delightedly closed a course of instruction under Mrs.

She existed from the beginning before all ages, and will not cease to exist throughout all ages: it is she who shall create in Heaven a light which shall never be extinguished; she shall rise in the midst of her people, and she shall be blessed over all those who are blessed by God, for she shall open the doors of the East, and the Desired of Nations shall appear. — Lily of Israel.

The attitude of the Church of Christ (Scientist) toward other denominations, is, to a certain extent, misunderstood. The only possible ground of difference is this:—The Christian Scientist claims the right to go beyond traditions and beliefs which declare that "the day of miracles is past," and "contends earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints"—by practical, scientific explanations, with "signs following," demonstrating that the method of Christ to heal the sick and reform the sinner, is not a lost art.