Articles

The Rev. A.

No one who understands metaphysical healing is practising or teaching honestly, in the spirit of Truth, who does not faithfully point out the danger and the way of escape from a mental mal-practice, any more than the pulpit is reforming the sinner and society by concealing, instead of uncovering and denouncing, sin. There are two motives leading to the culpable concealment of the sin that secretly works through mind to accomplish a sinister purpose, to gratify envy or to sate revenge, namely: fear of being found out a mental malpractitioner, or fear of the malpractitioner.

A. F.

We would most respectfully submit a few propositions to our dear friends, and as we would consider the whole world our friends, therefore what we say is submitted to everybody. It is a generally admitted fact that mind or spirit controls the external portion of the human organism, as the hands, arms, legs, feet, etc.

Some people like long, big names for their maladies. A woman came to me with a pain.

Learn a parable of this period, how it receives Truth as presented to mortals by Christ Jesus. Behold a gigantic mountain, an Acropolis, whose top rests above the clouds in the serene azure of unfathomable blue.

Mrs. Editor,—The following letter, from a prominent lady of Illinois, furnishes a hint of the great good resulting from the circulation of your publications in the North West; not only in a sanitary sense but as a moral check to the scurrilous reports of unscrupulous parties in Boston, who hesitate not to use the letter of your College Text-book, which you frankly publish, and forget to credit you with its authorship: but would defame a spotless character as per example.

The loveliest sight in this beautiful world is that of a child, dressed in white, with a pink sash about her, running, skipping, waltzing across the green sward—under the trees—plucking here and there a bud or blossom—vocalizing the air with ripples of laughter,—rivalling the birds with songs of heart-melody. Is she not a revelation—a poem? Ought we to marvel at the words of Jesus, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven?" But, alas! how often we see the outward grace and beauty in children to-day, without that wealth of mind which is its jewel! The child, taught by its foolish, fashionable mother, —whose highest ambition is to attudinize on life's stage to the glee of devils and the infinite pity of angels—becomes a mere automaton, echoing the words of others, and living over in miniature a life of worldly folly.

There exists a belief among a large class of people, that Christian Science is useful only in cases of nervous diseases, or where there is only an imaginary cause. The following experience, given by a student who finished a course at the Metaphysical College about six months ago, of a case she was called to treat, may be of interest in proof of the ability of Christian Science to meet emergencies where there is an acute attack.

Walking through one of our large dry-goods stores in Boston the other day, I observed how each of the clerks seemed to be on the alert to attract and please their customers. They appeared to have an individual interest and responsibility in selling their goods; and although there were probably about two hundred of them, there was no confusion, collision or rivalry.