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"In Jesus' first sermon he did not say to men, Love one another (he gave this instruction to his disciples later on), but he preached like John the Baptist the necessity for repentance, Mєτάνοєττє, change your conception of life or you will all perish. The object of your life cannot consist in the pursuit of your own personal welfare or that of your family or your country because this happiness can be attained only at the expense of your neighbor.

Dear Journal :—"Our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence; our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. " These beautiful thoughts from George Eliot portray, in a measure, the feelings experienced by the writer when she attempts to voice the deep sense of gratitude for the glimpse that has been afforded her into the glorious Shrine of Spirit—a glimpse redolent with celestial sunshine, beauty, intelligence, power, Love and Truth.

Portland, Me. , August 12, 1896.

" When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord. Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know ye not whence ye are.

The sweetest invitation ever given from the lips of him who spake as never man spake, is "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" ( Matt. 11; 28 ).

A WILLIAMSPORT man has surprised the scientists by living for years without a brain. John Bly, aged twenty years, who died recently, had suffered for a long time with a tumor, which grew into the very base of the brain and occasioned his death.

Dear Journal :— Ever since the Mother gave utterance through the columns of the Journal that she would advise her Students to revive their Students' Associations, our Association No. 15, of the Buffalo Institute, has been working more actively as an organization.

Editor Christian Science Journal:— In the April number of your magazine which I received recently I notice, in an article entitled ''Another Victory," extracts from the Buffalo Courier about an effort made by the "physicians and clergy" of that city to get an ordinance passed by the city council ostensibly to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, but which was interpreted as really an effort to crush out the Christian Scientists. Now I am a Baptist minister (though not at present in active service), ordained in Buffalo, and member of an influential church there.

IT is not often that students of Christian Science have their Bible Lesson so wonderfully presented, as was the experience of those in St. Louis and vicinity on the twenty-seventh of May, 1896.

[Essay of Charles Frederic Baxter, delivered at the Opera House in Gardiner, Me. , on the occasion of his graduation from the High School of that place, June 18, 1896.