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" But who is mixing the fatal draught that palsies heart and brain, And loading the bier of each passing year with ten-hundred-thousand slain? Who blights the bloom of the land today, with the fiery breath of Hell, If the Devil isn't, and never was? Won't somebody rise and tell?" Certain individuals entertain the notion that Christian Science Mind-healing should be two-sided, and only denounce error in general,—saying nothing, in particular, of error that is damning men. They are sticklers for a false, convenient peace, straining out gnats and swallowing camels.

One cool bright day in early October, Dame Pig, who lived in a nice roomy pen in Farmer Allen's back yard, called her children about her, saying she had something pleasant to tell them. They came rushing and scrambling, pushing each other this way and that, for they were very happy, active children, full of fun.

A delicate child, pale and prematurely wise, was complaining, on a hot morning, that some poor dewdrops had been too hastily snatched away, and not allowed to glitter on the flowers like other happier dewdrops, which live through the whole night, and sparkle in the moonlight and through the morning, onwards to noonday. "The sun," said the child, "has chased them away with his heat, or swallowed them up in his wrath.

A tree planted by the rivers of water. —Psalms i.

Once upon a time there was an Ass who was a very good Ass, but whose life were very agitated. This was because of a little difficulty of hearing, with which he was afflicted.

Eye hath not seen nor ear heard.

Now the Lord had said unto Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country-and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. " Genesis xii.

Heaven will be to us what we make it. The Master has taught us the way, in precept, example, death, and resurrection; but all he has done for us will not suffice for our redemption, unless we believe and accept him as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

If one set not the thought determinately to obtain Divine Truth, and utter it, he is already in a state of mind indicative of discord. There is nothing decided about such a state, except what is false.

It has seemed to me, many times, that a word to new beginners—especially those studying alone, and perhaps groping blindly in the dark—might not come amiss. I think it is nearly always the case, that those who take up Christian Science as a study, are driven to do so from some physical difficulty.