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The following item, from the dailies, certainly indicates the nothingness of matter: A puzzle is now agitating the minds of photographers in Philadelphia. It lies in the fact that in a group of eighteen people, the objects behind the sitters appear in faint outlines, as if the bodies of the sitters were transparent.

A Tract of four pages is issued by Mrs. G.

A Family doctor tells the following anecdote in an English magazine. Professor Blank, of E,—devoted a whole week of the session to lecturing to his students on the subject of heart-diseases.

The summer when Harry was nine years old he was to be in Gloucester, an old Massachusetts town. Mother had already gone thither, with Brother Herbert and Baby.

The law was a schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith; but after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GALATIANS iii.

The Lord is at hand. COLOSSIANS iv.

Again , ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the Great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Much has been said for and against Truth, as declared in Christian Science. Much is said for it; because no one can come to know its meaning, and the power it gives for good, without feeling that it is beyond all things else,—that in reality it embraces all, and there is naught beside it.

Surely the Children of Israel have a home in Mind. To each of them belongs one of the many mansions in the Father's House.

We read in Luke's Gospel (xviii. 19) that Jesus replied to the young man who asked him what he should do to inherit Eternal Life: "Why callest thou me Good? None is Good save one,—that is, God.