Articles

The footsteps of thought, as they pass from the sensual side of existence to the reality and Soul of all things, are slow, portending a long night to the traveller; but the guardians of this night are the angels of His presence, that impart grandeur to the intellectual wrestling and collisions with mortal beliefs, as we drift into more spiritual latitudes. — M.

The Rev. C.

If we have a true conception of God we are far advanced in self-knowledge. There are diversities of ideas of God among the sons of men.

If God makes man sick, sickness is good, and its opposite, health, must be evil; for all He made is good, and should continue and will remain for ever. If a law of mortal mind transgressed makes man sick, then sickness is the result of sin and error; hence, its only remedy is in mind, and not matter.

When God wants a certain work done He calls somebody out from among the ranks of men and sets him to do that work. The fitting for the performance may be a slow process, as in the case of Jesus of Nazareth, who was thirty years preparing for his three years' public ministration; or it maybe in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as in the case of Saul of Tarsus.

All claims from schools or individuals to teach Christian Science, metaphysical healing, under the auspices of, or as auxiliaries to the Massachusetts Metaphysical College of Boston, are bogus! The President of this Institute, Mary B. G.

Our speculative theories on health admit that food sustains the life of man, and then discuss the certainty that food can kill a man. —It is not the body, but mortal mind, that says food is undigested, that the gastric juices, the nervous tissues, and mucous membranes are diseased.

The common adulterations of bread are —alum, sand, sulphate of copper, rice, potatoes. These create dyspepsia and diarrhœa.

Text: "Ye do greatly err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. " Matt.

The scepticism of the age strikes deep. It asks not merely, Is the Bible inspired? but, Have we a Bible? It not only questions whether a miracle is possible; it demands whether the Christian religion is supernatural.