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This age seems reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; pushing towards perfection in art, inventions and manufactures. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the times in things most essential, which proceed from the standard of right that regulates human inventions.

The ambitious author of the libellous article in the Daily Advertiser of Jan. 16, with the above caption, lost his fire under the opprobrium of ignorance or malice.

Has services every Sunday, at Hawthorne Rooms, 2 Park St. Bible Lessons, pointing to Christian Healing, by the pastor, Mary B.

Dear Editor :—Allow me a few words on what "Christian Science" has done for me. I had been an invalid for nearly five years, with nervous prostration.

I believe that God has given to every one a place, and in this harmonious creation there is no void,—nothing left out, nothing lacking,—so we may as well try to breathe without air, or think without mind, as to think we can rotate out of the divine order of being, or take any place other than our own. Others may try to usurp us; they may try to be like us; they may move earth, and apparently heaven, to gain our position; but when God has placed us there, we are there, and naught can move us out of this our rightful inheritance.

The error of thinking we must grow old, and the benefits of destroying that thought, have their rebuke and illustration in a sketch from the history of a lady in England, published in the London Lancet. In early years, having been disappointed in love, she became insane; lost the calculation of time, and, believing she lived only in the hour that parted her from her lover, she took no note of time, but daily stood before her window, watching his coming.

I have thought many times since, these words came to me with peculiar force and beautiful fitness, how much real enjoyment and profit is lost through a lack of appropriating God's word to our every need; and while it appears that this quotation, with many others equally helpful, has a powerful significance at the present hour, would it not be well to lay aside some of the rush and tumult of mortal thought, and give these angel visitors more prayerful attention. At this age of the world when, "miraculous cures," so-called, are becoming frequent, there is little room to doubt the agency through which they are wrought.

The July Century presents the following suggestions as to the essence of a few metaphysical units suitable for all searchers after truth. Art is the joyous externalization of inwardness.

We know it dirties one's fingers to thrust them into holes and clean out mices' nests; but small animals that gnaw in the dark we must occasionally uncover. The rule however has been, with us, to give them no time or attention.

'Twas a beautiful group, and needed but the pencil of an artist to have rendered it, on canvas, touching, tender and glorious. Age, on whose hoary head the almond-blossom was a crown of glory, middle age, in smiles and the full fruition of happiness, infancy, exuberant with joy —ranged side by side.