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Learn a parable of this period, how it receives Truth as presented to mortals by Christ Jesus. Behold a gigantic mountain, an Acropolis, whose top rests above the clouds in the serene azure of unfathomable blue.

The loveliest sight in this beautiful world is that of a child, dressed in white, with a pink sash about her, running, skipping, waltzing across the green sward—under the trees—plucking here and there a bud or blossom—vocalizing the air with ripples of laughter,—rivalling the birds with songs of heart-melody. Is she not a revelation—a poem? Ought we to marvel at the words of Jesus, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven?" But, alas! how often we see the outward grace and beauty in children to-day, without that wealth of mind which is its jewel! The child, taught by its foolish, fashionable mother, —whose highest ambition is to attudinize on life's stage to the glee of devils and the infinite pity of angels—becomes a mere automaton, echoing the words of others, and living over in miniature a life of worldly folly.

Mrs. Editor,—The following letter, from a prominent lady of Illinois, furnishes a hint of the great good resulting from the circulation of your publications in the North West; not only in a sanitary sense but as a moral check to the scurrilous reports of unscrupulous parties in Boston, who hesitate not to use the letter of your College Text-book, which you frankly publish, and forget to credit you with its authorship: but would defame a spotless character as per example.

There exists a belief among a large class of people, that Christian Science is useful only in cases of nervous diseases, or where there is only an imaginary cause. The following experience, given by a student who finished a course at the Metaphysical College about six months ago, of a case she was called to treat, may be of interest in proof of the ability of Christian Science to meet emergencies where there is an acute attack.

Walking through one of our large dry-goods stores in Boston the other day, I observed how each of the clerks seemed to be on the alert to attract and please their customers. They appeared to have an individual interest and responsibility in selling their goods; and although there were probably about two hundred of them, there was no confusion, collision or rivalry.

Those who have enjoyed the benefits of Christian healing should not be afraid to speak in its favor. They should herald the glad tidings everywhere, that others may know and be benefited in their turn.

Letters lately received from western cities, and especially from the city of Chicago, by members of the Christian Science Association of Boston, contain the singular statement that "it has been represented by some practitioners of mental healing, in those cities, that the book, "Science and Health," is not for sale to any but students of Christian Science, either as personal students of the author of the work, or of the graduates of her college in Boston. " None of the graduates of Mrs.

Who is the man who knows the flower? Is it he who plucks, and dissects, and classifies? or he who, seeing the blossom floating on the summer air, glistening in the sunlight, feels a tender, thrilling recognition of that beauty, which is the good gift of a good and loving God? And who is the man who knows a word? "Why it lies there on the paper,—a mere word. " You have spoken it a thousand times.

Custom renders palatable to the cannibal the dainty flesh of human kind, even as it does that of animal flesh to the palate of civilized eaters. The writer, a few years ago, thought nothing of dining off the corpses of hogs, oxen, sheep, &c.

Not long since, a lady entered the office of a well known dentist in a neighboring city, to have some teeth extracted, but decided she could not endure the pain without the aid of some stupefying agent. She accordingly chose gas.