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"When all the scaffoldings which surround...

From the June 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal


"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."


"Please to give me something sir?" says an old woman. "I had a blind child ; he was my only means of subsistence ; and the poor boy has recovered his sight."


A little boy came to his mother recently and said : "Mamma, I should think that if I was made of dust, I would get muddy inside when I drink."


Little Susie went out to play, and soon came in and said, " she had been helping God." When asked what she had been doing, she replied, " I found some blossoms almost blossomed, and I blossomed them."

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