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The error of thinking we must grow old, and the benefits of destroying that thought, have their rebuke and illustration in a sketch from the history of a lady in England, published in the London Lancet. In early years, having been disappointed in love, she became insane; lost the calculation of time, and, believing she lived only in the hour that parted her from her lover, she took no note of time, but daily stood before her window, watching his coming.

I have thought many times since, these words came to me with peculiar force and beautiful fitness, how much real enjoyment and profit is lost through a lack of appropriating God's word to our every need; and while it appears that this quotation, with many others equally helpful, has a powerful significance at the present hour, would it not be well to lay aside some of the rush and tumult of mortal thought, and give these angel visitors more prayerful attention. At this age of the world when, "miraculous cures," so-called, are becoming frequent, there is little room to doubt the agency through which they are wrought.

The July Century presents the following suggestions as to the essence of a few metaphysical units suitable for all searchers after truth. Art is the joyous externalization of inwardness.

We know it dirties one's fingers to thrust them into holes and clean out mices' nests; but small animals that gnaw in the dark we must occasionally uncover. The rule however has been, with us, to give them no time or attention.

'Twas a beautiful group, and needed but the pencil of an artist to have rendered it, on canvas, touching, tender and glorious. Age, on whose hoary head the almond-blossom was a crown of glory, middle age, in smiles and the full fruition of happiness, infancy, exuberant with joy —ranged side by side.

The basis of Christian Science is, one Mind to govern man and that one God, and "thou shalt have no other gods," no other minds. The basis of mesmerism is minds many and one mind controlling another with full liberty and ability to do evil as well as good.

The following letter was written by Peter Cooper to Mr. E.

Being an Evolutionist, at least in the study of disease, I would bring forward some thoughts on the subject. Wherein does the Truth—Evolution in Disease— clash with the Truth of The Word of God? Wherein is it dishonoring to God? I am from conviction a Believer in the Bible, as well as having been brought up in "The faith; "but I am from observation and conviction, an Evolutionist also, as regards Evolution in Disease.

On Thursday evening of last week, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in the course of the discussion on Woman Suffrage in Dr.

Scholastic Theology elaborates the proposition that evil is a factor of good, and to believe in the reality of evil is accessory to a rounded sense of the existence of good. This frail hypothesis is founded on the basis of material and mortal evidence, only what the senses confirm and human reason accepts.