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Among the many colonial buildings in the City of Mexico is the City Hall, where weekly meetings of the municipal council were held continuously for three hundred and eighty years, until 1903. This building was erected eighty years before the government palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest building in the United States, is older by nearly ten years than Jamestown, and twenty-two years the senior of Plymouth.

A wise man will hear, and increase learning. — Proverbs.

Mrs. Eddy, beyond healing sickness, builds "a system," and revives in its fullest sense the religion of the Christ, devoid of theology.

For ages men believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Proceeding upon this assumption, they developed a theory of astronomy, known as the Ptolemaic, which argued that the moon, the sun, the fixed stars, and each of the planets were located in different "crystalline spheres" revolving at different rates of speed around the earth as a center.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath mads me free from the law of sin and death. — Paul.

Guard against executing your fellow-men piously. I would prefer that you should execute them brutally, like wild savages, than to see you destroy them under a Christianly guise.

A little incident taught the writer a helpful lesson and made such a deep impression upon him that he will not soon forget it. One morning he looked out of the window and an imposing and inspiring picture greeted the eye.

Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. — George Macdonald.

To the Editor of The Sun — Sir : There was recently published in The Sun a letter from Mrs. Jessie Crounse Hitchcock of Omaha, Neb.

A King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.