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A broad and beautiful tree spread its branches over the green pasture,—a brook ran murmuring at its feet,—the sun kissed its leaves, and dewy diamonds blazed with color, the quiet shadows fell, with interlacing sunbeams sifting through dark branches. The tree waved its welcome to the summer breeze that fanned fragrance from the clover fields near by, where bees hummed and gathered sweets for winter's over-tiding.

THE last earthly utterance that marked the passing of the German poet, Goethe, was the cry "More light!" Two words of ordinary meaning in common usage, but fraught with a world of significance, wrung as they were from the paling lips of the great scholar. Goethe had gathered widely from the tree of knowledge, and with instincts of true greatness in turn gave freely of the fruitage of his labors to the world.

THE great need of humanity is answer to prayer—fulfilment of promise. This need must be met, not by a more loving God or by the nearer approach of an extraneous millennium, but by an apprehension in consciousness of the law of activity emanating from God and governing man.

IN the creation God gave man dominion over every creature, over every circumstance, over every condition, be it beasts of the field or sin, be it disease or death. The first chapter of Genesis relates how man received this dominion.

THE primary postulate of Christian Science is:— There is only one source, cause, origin of all that really exists, and this first and only cause is Good and is infinite. If the above postulate is objected to, then the only other postulate that can be assumed is:— That there are two or more self-existent sources, causes, origins, independent of each other.

IT was David, the inspired poet of the ancient Hebrew people, who voiced those words of admonition, comfort, and promise: "Be still, and know that I am God. " This peaceful and satisfying declaration brings to a conclusion, spiritually climactic, that wonderful Psalm of strong assurance and positive confidence, the forty-sixth, the ringing refrain of which is, "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

THE faithful student of Christian Science early learns to regard Jesus as the way-shower and to make his exalted teaching and living, the pattern of his own daily life. As the self-satisfied beliefs of mortal mind begin to tremble and crumble beneath the inspiration and unfolding of Spiritual Truth, mankind grasps, at first faintly and then with an absorbing sense of satisfaction, the true nature and work of the lowly Nazarene.

THE first services held in the new edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at South and Park Streets were held Sunday morning [August 3] at eleven o'clock. The services were conducted by the First Reader, Miss Downer, and the Second Reader, Mrs.

NOT being personally present at our Communion season in Boston this year, I send my thanksgiving to God in this testimonial of spiritual healing. Brought up in the Lutheran church, I was taught as a child to study the Bible and reverence religious things; but faith struggled against a barrier of human suffering and the idea that God decreed it.

PERHAPS we have all felt that to be alone with God means to be apart from human habitation and association,—in the wilderness, in the primeval forest, on a wide expanse of waters, and that perchance in some such remote spot we might become conscious of a separateness from worldly thought, and a oneness with God, impossible in the crowded haunts of every-day life, surrounded by our fellow mortals. A deeper insight, however, into the things of Spirit, which also includes a keener analysis of human thought and motive, and the claims of error, reveals more than this isolation of body or person as a pre-requisite to true aloneness, or communion with God.