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Reading the history of the primitive ages, we cannot but notice the fact, that the characteristic which elevated a man above his fellows was simply physical strength combined with physical courage. The man of strongest muscle was known as a hero.

The above scripture in neither its origin nor preservation was intended for a rod to hold over the heads of men, or a threat to intimidate them, but on the contrary, a blessed assurance of the unselfish watchful care of a dear Friend, who has a love prompting the seeking and bringing back every wanderer from the fold of Christ. Let us examine the narrative of Hagar in the desert.

To acknowledge the Truth of being and the teachings of our Master, is to gain something more of Life. Every thought would then carry us toward that perfect spiritual harmony that abides in Truth, and this belief of life in matter would be to us but a passing dream and error.

While visiting a patient one day this week, a gentleman called also to see the patient. During his call he talked to him of God's power and love, the blessing of afflictions, the necessity of our going to Him with all our afflictions and troubles as we would go to a loving Father, feeling sure that He would do just what was best, and deal justly and lovingly with us in every instance.

In one of the churches of our city is located a memorial window, which for harmony of coloring and skill of workmanship can hardly be surpassed; but what person, gazing thereupon from the exterior and understanding not the character of such designs, would have any-conception of the beauties that might be revealed by an examination from the interior of the building? This feebly illustrates the view many have of metaphysics before obtaining some comprehension thereof. If one could realize the advantages to be gained from even a partial knowledge of "Christian Healing," vastly greater would be the demands for an understanding of the same; and while many would come, as now, seeking the blessing of health that every other source may have failed to supply, there would yet remain large numbers who would rejoice in the mastery it brings them over every avenue of error.

The useless burdens we impose upon ourselves show our lack of wisdom generally. The desire to outshine our friends in artificial glitter brings one of the heaviest loads we have to bear; and it neither elevates ourselves nor those around us.

"There is a purpose in pain, else it were devilish," sang Owen Meredeth, in Lucille. Yet Pain is useless,—an abnormal condition, the result of a belief.

Some men neglect, if they do not wholly reject, the Gospel, because many of its truths are bounded by horizons of impenetrable mystery. But the fact of human existence under its existing conditions is also a mystery which no man's reason can fully comprehend.

We clip from "The Journal of Education's" report of the annual meeting at Saratoga, N. Y.