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A London paper tells of Bob, the firemen's dog, at the Southwark Fire-brigade station in London. Whenever the fire-bell rings, Bob is in a great hurry to be off.

It is strange that people reflect not more on how deeply storms, injuries, vile or mean things sink into a childs memory. If this be thought of, it is plain there is more loveliness when no forgiveness is needful than when it is granted, nor shall you be able to heal by any entreaty or by any means such a lesson of spirit as you may make in an instant in a young creature.

I want to tell you how the mammas away up in Lapland keep their babies from disturbing the minister on Sunday. Poor babies! I suppose it is growing bad style everywhere to take them out to church; and I suppose, too, that the ministers are, privately, as thankful as can be.

The word temperance, in these days, is coming to the signification of abstention from intoxicating drinks. A special rather than its broader, and more general and accurate meaning; and it is in this more limited sense that I use it.

There is but one thing needful, to possess God. All our senses are so many ways of approaching Divinity, so many modes of tasting and adoring God.

Now it came to pass after many days, that there abode in the city of Denver, which lieth in the land of Colorado, very many mighty men—men of great renown, learned in all the medical and surgical wisdom of the age, and in the quackeries also; and they said, Behold, it is good for us to be here; for lo! the land is full of invalids, and we shall wax sleek eating of the fat of the land. And they bought and laid by in store, and builded them houses and barns, and whole blocks, of the money which they received from the suffering and diseased; who, like Asa of old, when he was diseased exceeding great, "yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians; and Asa slept with his fathers.

Facts present are intended to instruct us, and if we duly observe them, they will be ours forever, and we shall trace their connection with futurity. Rational inferences from facts are not, however, mere airy surmises, but solid Truth, and every expectation fairly founded on experience is of the nature of true prophecy, being consistent with the universal reason by which all events are ordered.

In that lovely fable of the Halcyon, we read: "In the wild winter months" is given "the wisdom of calm" to those days when the Halcyon builds her nest on the sea, and that time is known as "the hour of winds'-hiding,"—the Halcyon days. And such are the days which Christian Science brings to our consciousness, wherein the discords of mortal sense yield to the law of harmony, and spiritual sense is acknowledged true.

Song, or music, has always exerted a wonderful, incomprehensible power, which men have long endeavored to understand and define. The early Greeks recognized this power, and worshiped it in the form of the god Apollo.

After much vaporing, sundry threatenings and something akin to thunderings, Rev. Mr.