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The darkened ancient earth was sleeping. It was mankind's night-time, also in shadowy keeping with the telluric influence wherein he groped, not consciously, but with sure instinct, to the performing of needed tasks, as the wild fowl and the fish move from zone to zone to find their life food and conceive their kind.

To love the sinner but to hate the sin, has been preached to us : that we should hate nothing but sin has been dinned into our ears. Sin, sin,—what do we know of sin that we should hate it? We cannot hate what we do not know—and to know sin, is that desirable? I say, he who knows no sin hates no sin.

Editor Journal Christian Science : Dear Madam :—If some one may be benefitted by reading the following acknowledgment of the ability of Christian Science to heal disease, my writing will not be in vain. During the latter part of last month my wife was cured of a severe from of bleeding piles by one of your students, Mrs.

This is to certify, that I was suffering with a severe attack of Erysipelas in the head, of the kind to which I have been subject for a number of years, and that I was healed by Mrs. M.

"When all the scaffoldings which surround the Bible are taken away, by which men have tried to prop it up, the world will begin truly to recognize its real glory. Kingdoms fall, institutions perish, civilizations change, human doctrines disappear ; but the imperishable truths which pervade and sanctify the Bible shall bear it up above the flood of change and the deluge of years.

I am often asked, Could not Mrs. Eddy do more good at healing than teaching? I answer according to my own judgment, that doubtless healing would be more to her liking than teaching, for the results appear sooner, and as a rule the patient has more gratitude than the student.

Out of the bondage of mortal fear into the harmony of Divine Science makes the body whole. Conquering an error in one instance enables us to make a better demonstration the next time.

Somerville, July 18th, 1884. DEAR READER,—Of late I have been deeply interested in the welfare of those who profess Christianity and are holding on to the belief of carrying round with them a sick body.

"To him who, in the love of Nature, holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language. For his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness and a smile, and eloquence of beauty ; and she glides into his darker musings with a mild and healing sympathy, that steals away their sharpness ere he is aware.

The new "science," better known as the art of mental healing, which is attracting great attention in Boston and its vicinity, has become a topic of pulpit discussion. Rev.