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Text, Jeremiah viii. 22 : "Is there no balm in Gilead?" Medicines for diverse ails are called specifies, as if each were a bullet sure to hit the mark in some enemy of health.

Out upon the sidewalk this morning, I observed a carriage drawn up before a stately mansion, a portly gentleman alight, and, turning, take from the carriage the ominous hand trunk. Ah! thought I, somebody has got to take it, and what will the portion be ? Just then a sweet, tiny face appeared in the vestibule, red nose, suffused eyes and tired look told the story, when she looked quaintly up and said, "I've got cold, doctor.

Dr. Arthur T.

The two sermons on Mind Cure, preached by C. A.

The element of Christian healing has almost been lost to the world for 1800 years, but we are still the sons of God and live and move and have our being in Him, and by faith we are able to claim our inheritance; and when this attribute of Christ shall be once again in the hearts of his followers, then in deed and in truth has the Second Coming of Christ been fulfilled. — Mary B.

"Your daughter has a touch of malaria," said a physician to a New York lady; "I will call again in the morning. " The mother then went to her daughter's room with a look of great anxiety on her face, and said: "My dear, the doctor says you have malaria.

Long prayers! How tedious they often become! Especially is this the case with many in the pulpit. It is not unfrequent that the prayer is as long as the sermon ought to be.

Surnames were first acquired from vocations and other marks of individuality. John, the smith, soon became John Smith.

At the recent sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, two well-known geologists referred to two fossil shells as found, sometimes, side by side in the same rocks. Thereupon the State geologist of New York, who had never seen those two fossils side by side in the same rock, and whose pet theory of geology would not admit the possibility of their being there, rose and dogmatized, in behalf of his theory, after the type of the narrowest theological bigot.

The Chicago band of faithful workers for Christian Science having elected Miss Ellen Brown Vice-President, those of our readers who know her personally may be interested to read the following extract from her letter of acceptance and advice to that body, inasmuch as it is evidence of her loyalty to our Cause, and promise of her perseverance in well-doing, against what, to any but Christian Scientists, would be fearful odds: "Since it seems unavoidably my duty to serve as Vice-President of our branch of the C. S.