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The splendor of a disciplined character, which has learned to bear with grace which meets everything as it comes, and without flinching, without fretting, without crying for sympathy, lifts the weight and carries it where it must go, and does this serenely and cheerfully for half a life because, during the foregoing half, it has battled with wild waters to reach that shore of solemn strength, — this splendor is very great. This glory comes of the things which work at the soul like swartsmiths with a fierce forge, and show us "What anvils range, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors.

SOME two months ago I was asked to write a letter, giving an account of myself (as it was termed) for the past year, for the benefit of my classmates, who, in their turn, were to do the same; and these letters were to be embodied in one and sent to each of thirty-four members for perusal. With this request I gladly complied, seeing in it an opportunity of sowing a little seed by the wayside, as also a most excellent opportunity of declaring my position in Science to those who were expecting much of me in other lines.

Outline of a sermon preached in Scranton, Pa. , by S.

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. "— John viii.

Beloved Students and Friends : Certain legal proceedings with reference to the title to the church lot in Boston, valued at $20,000 and upwards, which I donated about three years ago for the specific purpose of building thereon a church edifice, have been taken, which, I am advised by my legal advisors, reverted the title in me. As soon as this end was accomplished I executed a trust deed of the lot, a copy of which is herewith appended.

HAVING spent the evening in talking Christian Science, after retiring, the following vision appeared to me, clear and distinct. I have since thought of it many times, only to find it brighter and clearer.

As a child I was feeble, could never run and play like other children, and life was a burden to me. I was under the care of my father who had been a druggist, and who was a so-called "patent-medicine man.

Mortal "history repeats itself" in motive, action and result, whatever the seeming aim. The light of Christian Science renders vivid the following picture of mortal mind's righteousness:—"I think the form of failure to which it is most liable is this, that being generous-hearted, and wholly intending always to do right, it does not attend to the external laws of right, but thinks it must necessarily do right because it means to do so, and therefore does wrong without finding it out; and then when the consequences of its wrong come upon it, or upon others connected with it, it cannot conceive that the wrong is in anywise of its causing or of its doing, but flies into wrath.

THIS morning there is recalled a mental picture, in which the writer seemed seated on the principal corner of the main street in the home of boyhood's days; near the old, familiar "town pump. " A document was handed me by an old friend whom I have always held in high esteem.

MUCH is said of the meek and mighty Nazarene as our High Priest. Mortal mind likes to be hand-and-glove with a high dignitary after he is proven such; without meeting, on its own part, the requirements necessary to precede the honorable association.