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"God created man in His own image. " It would seem, if we believe this statement, that in order to know ourselves we must have a true conception of God.

It has been ingeniously said that metaphysicians are poets who have missed their vocation. The more one thinks of it the more just that saying appears.

Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said: "The time Cometh and now is that they who worship the Father shall worship him in Spirit and in Truth. " Again, foreseeing the persecution that must attend the introduction of this science, he said: "The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God service.

The church which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it may be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

As from the mount of vision, I behold, Pure, just and free, the Church of Christ on earth— The martyr's dream, the golden age foretold! C. A.

Grant , O my God, that neither the joy nor the sorrow of this period shall have visited my heart in vain! Make me wise and strong to the performance of immediate duties, and ripen me by what means thou seest best for the performance of those that lie beyond.

At the meeting of Congregational ministers, Monday, May 4th, in Boston, Prof. Stacy Fowler read a paper on "Mind-cure, or Christian Science.

The whole work of natural science might be described under this phase; it has laid hold of the physical universe, and shown that the reality is unlike that which first appears. It has thus bred a fine, wholesome skepticism, which is the basis of true knowledge, and of progress.

A clergyman writes: Are not "faith-cure" and Christian Science one and the same in process and result? Christian Science is not what is called "faith-cure:" we have the science of those cures. It is not mere faith or belief in God, but its rules are demonstrated according to understanding of Him.