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THE real or spiritual man, to whose existence the greatest seers of the ages have borne consistent testimony, cannot be discerned from the standpoint of finite sense. Finite sense insists that the universe is material and that man is mortal.

THE passion for having "reason and the will of God" prevail, the thought that "culture is the pursuit of perfection," is the "line upon line" of Matthew Arnold's teaching. One gets in his thesis many a glimpse of a heart for which obedience to the divine will meant rightness, harmony, beauty, and joy; yet none of the apostles of "sweetness and light" at any time seem to have actually accomplished as much toward bringing the will of God to pass as the very religious bodies which they flouted as Philistines have done.

WITHOUT going into the derivation and dictionary meaning of the word recognition, let it be granted that to recognize any person is to know him by his appearance, his voice, his walk, or some characteristic or characteristics peculiar to himself. "By these means we are able to pick him out in a crowd and even to identify him in spite of some disguise.

THERE is perhaps no Bible narrative which teems with more helpful lessons for workers in Christian Science than that of the healing of the Gadarene, recounted in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. Jesus and his disciples were crossing the sea of Galilee, and on their way they encountered a terrific storm of wind and tempest, which lashed the sea to such fury that the boat and the little company were in great jeopardy.

IN early spring, when the willows by the brook are putting forth their downy catkins and the first robin's note gladdens the waiting ear, the desire is native with the human heart to have winter let go her icy fetters and speedily take her departure. Somewhat later, when the April showers have clothed the brown earth with an emerald sheen and the fruit-trees are in full flower, one might wish that the beautiful bloom of apple, pear, and peach would linger with us; but the fruit-trees are deaf to this unwise desire, and in a few days the winds, at play among the blossoms, scatter far and wide the pink and white petals.

CITY GOVERNMENT PASSES RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT At the meeting of the city government, Monday night [Dec. 26], action was taken on the death of the Rev.

At the regular business meeting of the New England Woman's Press Association, held at the Hotel Vendome Wednesday afternoon [Jan. 4], the following resolution was adopted and ordered spread upon the records, and a copy sent to the relatives:— "The members of the New England Woman's Press Association wish to express their share in the loss which has come to humanity in the passing of Mrs.

Power is the ability to do. It is that which accomplishes, which achieves results.

IN a variety of ways disease tries to pretend that it is necessary to the welfare of mankind, that it forms a legitimate part of God's plan. Unfortunately both scholastic theology and materia medica unite in seconding these pretensions by describing disease alternately as the result of God's will or as due to the violation of so-called natural and divinely sanctioned law.

Under the above caption the poems written by our Leader have been compiled in a handsome volume of 79 pages, now in press, and orders will be filled in sequence. All of Mrs.