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Since our article of April 5th, we have been continually proving the power of mind over disease, and finding it more satisfactory as we understand and obey more its spiritual principle, which is God. We find in immortal Mind all the potency that is necessary to prevent and cure the ills flesh is heir to.

I am often asked wherein the faith cure differs from Christian Science. A letter just at hand, from a pious clergyman, reads: "I suppose that your success in any case depends upon the faith of the patient in your ability to heal him.

It may seem unimportant to some, and yet to me it has been of radical importance, to invert the relations of these two little words, "up" and "down. " What particularly claims attention upon entering the realm of Christian Science is the topsy-turveying condition that everything has to undergo in our minds.

Says one: "We have only to believe ourselves to be well, and we shall be well. " Says another: "My belief had nothing to do with disease, I had the disease before I knew it.

Dear readers! Having to bid you adieu for a season, I am reminded of the poet's mood who said, "Tis parting makes the heart grow fonder. " Over a year has fled since first we met in the columns of the " Journal ," through which some crumbs may have fallen from the Master's table to feed a hungry thought with the manna of Truth.

I had been thinking long and deeply on the nature and office of the "Stone which the builders rejected. " I felt as never before His promise, "I am with you always," to be true; for He was present with me indeed—the Paraclete, the blessed Comforter.

Fellow-citizens! We congratulate you upon a larger scale than is general, yea, upon the fifty-eight hundredth independence of several nothings, among whom are quadruped, biped, pig-head, monkey and the rest of mankind. We also enter our bill of complaint against several more nothings, which are gastritis, enteritis, spino-meningitis and drinking grog gratis.

The olden opinions of a material hell have yielded to the more metaphysical views that suffering is a thing of mortal mind, instead of body; so, in place of fire, remorse, anguish of mind, is accepted as the reward of sin. This change of opinion has wrought a change in the actions of men.

Intuitive reason declares the existence of God a fundamental verity. Then it follows, since all men are possessors of intuitive reason to some extent, possessors of that deathless understanding which is the actual of their being, the spark of Divinity wholly wanting in none of the sons and daughters of God, that theoretical atheism to any great extent, to any wide prevalence, is an impossibility.

Not a session passes in the medical schools but the lecturer on physic has occasion to quiet the nervous fears of nervous students, who simulate in themselves the symptoms of heart-disease, and require the gravest assurances that their fears are ungrounded, and that they have simply been studying with a morbid interest the lecturer's remarks on heart affections. In his work entitled De I' Imagination, Demaugeon tells us that Nebelius, lecturing one day upon intermittent fever, and lucidly describing ague, noticed one of his pupils to become pale, to shiver, and to exhibit at last all the symptoms of ague.