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If people would confine their talk to subjects only that are profitable, that which St. John informs us took place once in heaven would happen very frequently on earth, silence for the space of half an hour.

" That prayer which does not succeed in moderating one wish, in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender, is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer. That life is most holy in which there is least of petition and desire, and most of waiting upon God; that in which petition most often passes into thanksgiving.

The mistaken idea people entertain as to what Christian Science is, can only be accounted for in one way—a prejudice, which amounts to ignorance. Willing to pass judgment, yet unable to overcome a narrow-minded prejudice enough to study into the Science.

All the world may know an author through his books, and it is with something of the feeling of real friendship that I read of the coming to Boston of this distinguished divine. Many years ago, when a child, I learned something of the broad humanity of the man, through (to me) his best novel, "St.

The old fable of the spider and the fly has not yet been forgotten. We think our readers are informed of the character of those who stoop to flatter.

What specimen of science is a wolf in sheep's clothing, beyond an ass whose ears stick out? What tender hearted mind-curer has discovered an improvement on Christian Science, metaphysical healing, by which error destroys error, and would gather all sorts into "a national convention" with the sophistry that such is the true fold for Christian healers, and the Good Shepherd cares for all. Yes, He does care for all, and His first care is to separate the sheep and goats, and this is the first lesson of healing taught by our blessed Master.

We are glad to hear that a noted clergyman has spoken for God as revealed through Christian Science from his pulpit. That is the source from which all encouragement and inspiration should come, and it will come.

What is it but the awakening of so much new life; the uncovering of so much more dawn to our morning; the lighting and broadening of our day; the extending of our horizon, and the deferring of our night? And this new thought, which shall spawn a thousand other thoughts, so prolific is mind, will it not in good time widen our whole lives into perpetual day, and so destroy the dark forever? What is darkness but ignorance incarnate?— Woman's World.

Some one has said, " The great want of this age is men . " Men who are not for sale; who are honest at heart, simply because honesty is right: men who love God and hate evil: men who are not afraid to speak the truth, and who condemn wrong-doing in themselves, as well as in others: men who have courage without whistling for it, and joy without shouting.

Dear "Journal" —As I was returning to Boston on a Western train, recently, my attention was arrested by a family party near me, composed of a young father and mother, and a little child, a year or more old. I watched and studied the group for some time, held in spite of myself by an indefinable something which shone in their faces.