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The first portion of the Scriptures ever printed in English, which was not Wycliff's Bible, but the New Testament printed by Tyndale at Cologne in 1525, does not appear in the catalogue. Of this a solitary fragment exists, in the Grenville library, the printing having been interrupted when it had reached sheet K, and all the rest of the impression destroyed.

LOCKE , in his "Conduct of the Understanding," said, "Truths are not the better, nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency. " This quotation is particularly in touch with the present, when so many from all the religious beliefs are flocking to the standard of Truth, acquiring a knowledge of what Christian Science really means, and coming to an understanding of its "usefulness and tendency.

The wisdom of keeping the First Commandment, that men should acknowledge none other than the one true God, is not questioned by Christian or Jew. It has stood unchallenged as the beginning of true worship, the common starting-point whereat mortals begin their journey toward the kingdom of heaven.

Young Gentlemen:— You have come from far to this ancient seat of learning to find out if possible what is the value and true meaning of life. When the motto of Harvard University, Christo et Ecclesice, was adopted, the truth must have been perceived that education should train the minds of men into conformity with the mind of Christ, so that their lives might therefore be influential in behalf of the Christian church.

The Hebrew law exacted the first fruits of the field and the firstlings of the flock as a thank-offering to God. They were to give to God before they took aught for themselves.

THE following excerpt from the letter of a reverend critic, reveals the unprogressive and unpromising attitude toward Christian Science which has been assumed by a few Christian ministers, while the judicial and kindly tone of the answer thereto, will appeal to all liberal-minded readers. In his caustic reference to the asserted technical ignorance of the symptoms of disease upon the part of Christian Science practitioners, the critic ignores a very important fact; viz.

STUDENTS of the Christian Science text-book have noted that its author, Mrs. Eddy, chose for the introduction to that wonderful chapter entitled, "Christian Science Practice," the narrative of the loving service rendered by Mary Magdalene to the Master in her gift of the alabaster box of ointment, as told in the seventh chapter of Luke.

Men have been puzzled in all ages how to reconcile a belief in the omnipotence and omnipresence of God with the existence of evil. The philosophy that finds God everywhere, with difficulty leaves a place for man.

SINCE the beginnings of material history, humanity has been supposed to be living a life of its own, separated from God; separated, in that the Creator, having fashioned it, set it, according to the supposition, in a world of its own, to begin and mature and die by itself, through successive generations; all this with no appeal to any source save the God supposed to dwell remotely in a distant heaven, and with no assurance that His ear can be reached by any certain mode of communication, in time of need. Thus removed from the Creator, having no more than the hope of a close association with God after the final exit, by death, from the scene of this separated existence, mortal man has moved in grooves of his own, oftentime knowing no appeal to anything outside the arena of human experience.

To those who have had difficulty in the study of mathematics the writer's experience may prove interesting. The master was too selfishly ambitious to pay much attention to the less gifted pupils, among whom the writer numbered himself, and the result was that the more gifted members of the class were soon far ahead.