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Esau bartered his birthright for a mess of pottage. For a temporary gratification of sense he sacrificed what? His rights as the son of his father.

"' Taking up one's cross does not at all mean having ovations at dinner parties, and being put over everybody else's head. It means simply that you are to go the road which you see to be the straight one carrying whatever you find is given you to carry, as well and stoutly as you can; without making faces, or calling people to come and look at you.

Americus , Ga. , May 4.

God is Love. —1 John iv.

It has been said—it ought always to be said, for it is true —that a better and more honorable offering is made to our Master in ministry to the poor, in extending the knowledge of His name, in the practice of the virtues by which that name is hallowed, than in material presents to His temple. Assuredly it is so: woe to all who think that any other kind or manner of offering may in any wise take the place of these!

Letter read at the meeting of the Mass. Metaphysical College Association, June 3, 1891.

Langford is a little boy only four years old. All of his friends say he is just like a little bird, he is so sweet and cheery.

We are daily gaining our object lessons from the little ones; and to show how quick they are to grasp the Spiritual interpretation, I enclose a few thoughts. One day, our little Walter seemed unusually affectionate, wanting to kiss me every few moments.

I have just seen the appeal in the May Journal for contributions to the Home and Children's Dept. and hasten to tell the Little Scientists what I have long hail in my heart to say to them about a band of very different children, to mortal sense, who are "Shut-in" from the bright world, by the belief of pain and disease, often combined with great poverty.

An eminent New York physician, who was fond of experimenting, told a friend that he had compounded some wonderful pills, a single one of which would cause certain described symptoms. His friend volunteered to take one.