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Our lives have some weight, and let that be thrown into the right scale. The baneful effect of evil associates is little seen, in comparison to what is felt.

A strong character, whether directed by wisdom to goodness, or misled by ignorance to evil, has, as its basis, a self-consciousness of power—a positiveness— which should come from divine persistency, recognizing that "where there is a purpose, there is a way to fulfil it. This characteristic in man builds railroads, levels or tunnels mountains.

Perhaps a word from one who has practised medicine for several years, with and without drugs, may be of interest to the reader of this Journal. The writer's experience in treating the sick, before learning Christian Science, has been very unsatisfactory, as regards permanent cures.

Are our "feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace?" Have we invested ourselves with the whole armor of God, so that we are able to withstand the wiles of the devil? Have we sufficient understanding of Divine love to carry us through the warfare of error, so that we shall not smell of the battle smoke, or carry a thought of it with us? "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " Let us seek that secret place.

"I once went to see Margaret Fuller when she had been teaching a school of girls in Providence for a year or two. She showed me two packages of letters which she had received from her pupils.

One sabbath evening not long since, I went into a prayermeeting to listen to the word. The pastor exhorted the people to seek their soul's salvation, and to make it more impressive, he told them of one of the lambs of his flock who was sick, and her recovery doubtful, but she had made her peace with God and was ready to die.

If you were told you must construct a perfect model out of some great truth, would you not try to draw a picture of Christ's character, as best you understood it? Or perhaps you would give a graphic description, with tearful eyes and saddened heart, of his agony on the cross—which being physical and inflicted by man, is too often seen as with a material eye. But the perfect model—does it not live in our immortal sense? And when we are trying to demonstrate it, will it not come forth in the truest light as Life, Truth and Love? This perfect model impresses us with the strongest desire to keep chiseling away at mortal conscience, until we drive out every crude thought, act or deed, opposed to it.

To my mind, it is blessed evidence of the universal goodness and impartiality of God, that to every people and nation of the earth He has manifested Himself as Life, Truth, Holiness—Health. The Buddhist Nirvana, the ideal conception of the summum bonum, the supreme good, is the rest of the soul in complete union with God, and in harmony with the Divine Life.

To the Editor of the "Journal. "—Please publish in your valuable paper, that has furnished remarkable evidence of the power of Divine Mind over the body to save from sickness, the following brief sketch of the death of the late Dr.

There are, we must admit, certain facts which seem to demand, if not a new theology, at least a new statement of the propositions of theology. Among these facts are the following: the necessity of choosing now a theology, not for a single nation but for all the nations of the earth; the progress that has been 'made in the study of comparative religion; the revision of the Scriptures; the demand for the application of the scientific method to all questions, even the most sacred; the triumphs of Christian scholarship in the study of miracles; the necessity of making theology a balance system; the diminishing of strife among the different branches of the church; the fact that Christian faith and practice have not yet been brought into complete harmony with the principles of Christianity as set forth in the gospel, and that Christianity itself therefore needs Christianizing.