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Mr. W.

Says M. C.

A few weeks ago I met a very intelligent Indian chief. I had met him once before in Oshkosh, Wis.

Amherst , June 18. —The baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of the Mass.

Do we as children of one Father believe in God, or do our lives practically deny the words our lips have uttered for generations past? The Scripture declares that "with God all things are possible. " This either means that God possesses all power, "supplies all our need," or that there is no hope or comfort in God.

Many and many a time that little sentence has lifted the burden of a seeming drudgery for me, transforming the task into the brightest and most joyous doing. We sometimes seem to forget that Principle is Love.

In Science and Health Church is defined as "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from Principle. " In studying the Bible Lessons of the past winter, we find almost startling applications to our present state of thought in reference to the Church.

While going through a course of instruction, a great truth was revealed to me so plainly, that I send it to the Journal, hoping it may help some one else on, in the way "from earth to Heaven," as it did me. I had considerable knowledge of Christian Science before entering a class, for I had earnestly studied the pages of Science and Health, and attended the meetings held in our city by a lady Christian Scientist, a woman expressing a true Christian spirit; and it was under her instruction that I placed myself.

"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!" This is as direct a command to us now, as it was to those to whom John spoke. We are to behold, or discern, that which will "take away the sin of the world.

The so-called reform movements do not accomplish that which they aim at, simply because they deal with effects, not causes. The existing state of affairs is of itself an effect.